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Reset Asserting message is forwarded by PF to inform VF about
the hardware reset which is about to happen. This might be due
to the earlier VF reset request received by the PF or because PF
for any reason decides to undergo reset. This message results in
VF to go in pending state in which it polls the hardware to
complete the reset and then further resets/tears its own stack.
Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Current mailbox CRQ could consists of both synchronous and async
responses from the PF. Synchronous responses are time critical
and should be handed over to the waiting tasks/context as quickly
as possible otherwise timeout occurs.
Above problem gets accentuated if CRQ consists of even single
async message. Hence, it is important to have quick handling of
synchronous messages and maybe deferred handling of async messages
This patch introduces separate ARQ(async receive queues) for the
async messages. These messages are processed later with repsect
to mailbox task while synchronous messages still gets processed
in context to mailbox interrupt.
ARQ is important as VF reset introduces some new async messages
like MBX_ASSERTING_RESET which adds up to the presssure on the
responses for synchronousmessages and they timeout even more
quickly.
Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch fixes the buffer overflow warning by refactoring
hclgevf_bind_ring_to_vector and hclge_get_ring_chain_from_mbx.
Fixes: e2cb1dec9779 ("net: hns3: Add HNS3 VF HCL(Hardware Compatibility Layer) Support")
Fixes: dde1a86e93ca ("net: hns3: Add mailbox support to PF driver")
Signed-off-by: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Peng Li <lipeng321@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch adds the support of the mailbox to the VF driver. The
mailbox shall be used as an interface to communicate with the
PF driver for various purposes like {set|get} MAC related
operations, reset, link status etc. The mailbox supports both
synchronous and asynchronous command send to PF driver.
Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: lipeng <lipeng321@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Salil Mehta
Yunsheng Lin