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SubjectRE: [PATCH V2 net-next 0/3] net: hns3: Refactors "reset" handling code in HCLGE layer of HNS3 driver
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 4:49 PM
> To: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
> Cc: Zhuangyuzeng (Yisen) <yisen.zhuang@huawei.com>; lipeng (Y)
> <lipeng321@huawei.com>; mehta.salil.lnk@gmail.com;
> netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> rdma@vger.kernel.org; Linuxarm <linuxarm@huawei.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net-next 0/3] net: hns3: Refactors "reset"
> handling code in HCLGE layer of HNS3 driver
>
> From: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
> 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.

Thanks Dave.

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