Re: [PATCH 2/4] swait: add the missing killable swaits

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 00:50:03 +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 01:58:22PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:44:55 +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:  
> > > > Since this swake_up() --> swake_up_all() reportedly *fixed* the one wake up
> > > > issue it would seem this does queue [0]. That said, I don't see any simple tests
> > > > tools/testing/selftests/swait but then again we don't have test for regular
> > > > waits either...
> > > > 
> > > > [0] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195477    
> > > 
> > > I should also note that the swake_up_all() should have only helped in cases where
> > > 3 cards were used, as if only 2 were used that should have been covered by just
> > > the swake_up(). Unless of course I hear otherwise by the reporter, Nicolas or
> > > from Jakub.  
> > 
> > I was hitting this with 2 cards.  
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Thing is I'm not convinced the issue with 2 cards was the swake_up() Vs
> swake_up_all() in this case though. Let's recall also the missing wake up on
> errors! And the fact that netronome has optional firmware, which naturally can
> fail.
> 
> So could the issue with 2 cards instead of the miss of a wake up on error due
> to batched requests ? If so then that still would not put blame on the
> swake_up()!

Sorry, that was during manual tests.  I had the driver request the
firmware with _nowait() without an uevent, and then after I manually
wrote -1 to loading only one would get woken up.