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Subject[bug, bisected] pfifo_fast causes packet reordering
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During stress-testing our "ucan" USB/CAN adapter SocketCAN driver on 
Linux v4.16-rc4-383-ged58d66f60b3 we observed that a small fraction of
packets are delivered out-of-order.

We have tracked the problem down to the driver interface level, and it
seems that the driver's net_device_ops.ndo_start_xmit() function gets
the packets handed over in the wrong order.

This behavior was not observed on Linux v4.15 and I have bisected the
problem down to this patch:

> commit c5ad119fb6c09b0297446be05bd66602fa564758
> Author: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu Dec 7 09:58:19 2017 -0800
>
> net: sched: pfifo_fast use skb_array
>
> This converts the pfifo_fast qdisc to use the skb_array data structure
> and set the lockless qdisc bit. pfifo_fast is the first qdisc to support
> the lockless bit that can be a child of a qdisc requiring locking. So
> we add logic to clear the lock bit on initialization in these cases when
> the qdisc graft operation occurs.
>
> This also removes the logic used to pick the next band to dequeue from
> and instead just checks a per priority array for packets from top priority
> to lowest. This might need to be a bit more clever but seems to work
> for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The patch does not revert cleanly, but moving to one commit earlier
makes the problem go away.

Selecting the "fq" scheduler instead of "pfifo_fast" makes the problem
go away as well.

Is this an unintended side-effect of the patch or is there something the
driver has to do to request in-order delivery?

Thanks,
Jakob

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