RE: [PATCH iwl-net v4] i40e: Restore VF MSI-X state during PCI reset

[Keller, Jacob E]

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> From: Staikov, Andrii <andrii.staikov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2023 6:00 AM
> To: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>; intel-wired-lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Ostrowska, Karen
> <karen.ostrowska@xxxxxxxxx>; Mateusz Palczewski
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> <wojciech.drewek@xxxxxxxxx>; Kitszel, Przemyslaw
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> Subject: RE: [PATCH iwl-net v4] i40e: Restore VF MSI-X state during PCI reset
> 
> 
> > The ice driver recently started caching the PCI device structure
> > pointers in their VF structure instead of having to do this sort of
> > lookup on the fly.
> >
> > See 31642d2854e2 ("ice: store VF's pci_dev ptr in ice_vf") [1][2]
> >
> > [1]:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/intel-wired-lan/20230912115626.105828-1-
> mateusz.polchlopek@xxxxxxxxx/
> > [2]:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231019173227.3175575-4-
> jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Can we do something similar for i40e?
> 
> For now we don't anticipate much benefit of this approach, and we want relatively
> smaller change for a bugfix.
> 
> Regards,
> Staikov Andrii

Sure. If we ever need the VF PCI dev pointer in the future we can look into this. Not a huge deal for this since it’s the only place we use it currently anyways. Thanks for the response!

Thanks,
Jake