git: 74bcb1151bb9 - main - ena: Fix false 'missing TX completions' warnings due to timestamp race
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:24:13 UTC
The branch main has been updated by akiyano:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=74bcb1151bb94279a4269fc842aa2be00800545e
commit 74bcb1151bb94279a4269fc842aa2be00800545e
Author: Gilad Ben Yakov <giladben@amazon.com>
AuthorDate: 2026-06-21 12:45:38 +0000
Commit: Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2026-07-16 18:20:41 +0000
ena: Fix false 'missing TX completions' warnings due to timestamp race
Sporadic 'Found a Tx that wasn't completed on time' warnings appear
under sustained TX load, always reporting '1 msecs since last cleanup'
despite the 5-second timeout threshold.
The per-packet TX timestamp uses struct bintime (128 bits: two 64-bit
fields sec and frac) which is read and written non-atomically. A race
exists between the missing TX completion check
(check_missing_comp_in_tx_queue reading the timestamp) and the TX
submit path or cleanup path writing it on another CPU. Since the two
fields are not updated atomically, the check can observe a partially
written timestamp - one field from the old value and one from the new.
This can produce a timestamp with {sec=0, frac=valid}, causing the
check to compute a time offset equal to system uptime and falsely
exceeding the 5-second timeout.
Confirmed by instrumentation showing all occurrences had sec=0 with
valid frac/mbuf, cleanup_running=0, and ticks==last_cleanup_ticks.
Replace struct bintime with sbintime_t (a single 64-bit value) for
tx_buf->timestamp. An aligned 64-bit store/load cannot be torn on
64-bit architectures. Additionally, snapshot the timestamp into a
local variable in the check path to prevent a read-then-read race
where the timestamp could be zeroed between the zero-check and the
offset calculation.
Testing:
On m6i.large (FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p6 amd64, 2 IO queues), two
instances with MTU 1500. Ran iperf -P 20 -u -b 320kpps (CPU
saturated at ~7 Gbps aggregate).
Without the fix: 8 warnings in 6 hours (first at ~72 min).
With the fix: 0 warnings after 20+ hours under identical conditions.
Fixes: 9b8d05b8ac78 ("Add support for Amazon Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) NIC")
Submitted by: Gilad Ben Yakov <giladben@amazon.com>
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Amazon, Inc.
Reviewed by: cperciva
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58241
---
sys/dev/ena/ena.c | 13 +++++++------
sys/dev/ena/ena.h | 2 +-
sys/dev/ena/ena_datapath.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sys/dev/ena/ena.c b/sys/dev/ena/ena.c
index 79b9937991c1..060d9e26c1cf 100644
--- a/sys/dev/ena/ena.c
+++ b/sys/dev/ena/ena.c
@@ -3213,7 +3213,7 @@ check_missing_comp_in_tx_queue(struct ena_adapter *adapter,
{
uint32_t missed_tx = 0, new_missed_tx = 0;
device_t pdev = adapter->pdev;
- struct bintime curtime, time;
+ sbintime_t curtime;
struct ena_tx_buffer *tx_buf;
int time_since_last_cleanup;
int missing_tx_comp_to;
@@ -3222,17 +3222,18 @@ check_missing_comp_in_tx_queue(struct ena_adapter *adapter,
enum ena_regs_reset_reason_types reset_reason = ENA_REGS_RESET_MISS_TX_CMPL;
bool cleanup_scheduled, cleanup_running;
- getbinuptime(&curtime);
+ curtime = getsbinuptime();
for (i = 0; i < tx_ring->ring_size; i++) {
+ sbintime_t ts;
+
tx_buf = &tx_ring->tx_buffer_info[i];
- if (bintime_isset(&tx_buf->timestamp) == 0)
+ ts = atomic_load_64(&tx_buf->timestamp);
+ if (ts == 0)
continue;
- time = curtime;
- bintime_sub(&time, &tx_buf->timestamp);
- time_offset = bttosbt(time);
+ time_offset = curtime - ts;
if (unlikely(!atomic_load_8(&tx_ring->first_interrupt) &&
time_offset > 2 * adapter->missing_tx_timeout)) {
diff --git a/sys/dev/ena/ena.h b/sys/dev/ena/ena.h
index ca5abe494e04..77cb8730627f 100644
--- a/sys/dev/ena/ena.h
+++ b/sys/dev/ena/ena.h
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ struct ena_tx_buffer {
bus_dmamap_t dmamap;
/* Used to detect missing tx packets */
- struct bintime timestamp;
+ sbintime_t timestamp;
bool print_once;
#ifdef DEV_NETMAP
diff --git a/sys/dev/ena/ena_datapath.c b/sys/dev/ena/ena_datapath.c
index c11006cbc10f..b58779e51fc3 100644
--- a/sys/dev/ena/ena_datapath.c
+++ b/sys/dev/ena/ena_datapath.c
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ ena_tx_cleanup(struct ena_ring *tx_ring)
mbuf = tx_info->mbuf;
tx_info->mbuf = NULL;
- bintime_clear(&tx_info->timestamp);
+ atomic_store_64(&tx_info->timestamp, 0);
bus_dmamap_sync(adapter->tx_buf_tag, tx_info->dmamap,
BUS_DMASYNC_POSTWRITE);
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ ena_xmit_mbuf(struct ena_ring *tx_ring, struct mbuf **mbuf)
counter_exit();
tx_info->tx_descs = nb_hw_desc;
- getbinuptime(&tx_info->timestamp);
+ atomic_store_64(&tx_info->timestamp, getsbinuptime());
tx_info->print_once = true;
tx_ring->next_to_use = ENA_TX_RING_IDX_NEXT(next_to_use,