if the system runs out of mbufs and cannot provide any when filling

the rx ring, schedule a timeout to keep trying until it gets some.

a timeout is used here cos the chip doesnt have a way of reporting
if its out of descriptors or when there's a ring overflow. we have
to manage that ourselves in software.

mikeb reported this issue on an ipsec gateway. ipsec would consume
all the mbufs while they were stuck in crypto waiting for the cpu
to catch up, by which time it was too late to give more to the
hardware. without any rx descriptors the chip would never interrupt
and we'd never try to fill the ring again.

the fix was tested by and is ok mikeb@

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sys/dev/pci/if_ix.h b/sys/dev/pci/if_ix.h
index 0bc365a7311..28d60656d33 100644
--- a/sys/dev/pci/if_ix.h
+++ b/sys/dev/pci/if_ix.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*	$OpenBSD: if_ix.h,v 1.12 2011/06/10 12:46:35 claudio Exp $	*/
+/*	$OpenBSD: if_ix.h,v 1.13 2011/06/15 00:03:00 dlg Exp $	*/
 
 /******************************************************************************
 
@@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ struct ix_softc {
 
 	struct ifmedia		media;
 	struct timeout		timer;
+	struct timeout		rx_refill;
 	int			msix;
 	int			if_flags;