Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 0/3] net: hns3: Refactors "reset" handling code in HCLGE layer of HNS3 driver

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Dec 05 2017 - 11:48:46 EST


From: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 01:29:52 +0000

> This patch refactors the code of the reset feature in HCLGE layer
> of HNS3 PF driver. Prime motivation to do this change is:
> 1. To reduce the time for which common miscellaneous Vector 0
> interrupt is disabled because of the reset. Simplification
> of the common miscellaneous interrupt handler routine(for
> Vector 0) used to handle reset and other sources of Vector
> 0 interrupt.
> 2. Separate the task for handling the reset
> 3. Simplification of reset request submission and pending reset
> logic.
>
>
> To achieve above below few things have been done:
> 1. Interrupt is disabled while common miscellaneous interrupt
> handler is entered and re-enabled before it is exit. This
> reduces the interrupt handling latency as compared to older
> interrupt handling scheme where interrupt was being disabled
> in interrupt handler context and re-enabled in task context
> some time later. Made Miscellaneous interrupt handler more
> generic to handle all sources including reset interrupt source.
> 2. New reset service task has been introduced to service the
> reset handling.
> 3. Introduces new reset service task for honoring software reset
> requests like from network stack related to timeout and serving
> the pending reset request(to reset the driver and associated
> clients).
>
>
> Change Log:
> Patch V2: Addressed comment by Andrew Lunn
> Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/1/366
> Patch V1: Initial Submit

Series applied, thank you.