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| author | Radoslaw Tyl <radoslawx.tyl@intel.com> | 2021-06-30 10:15:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com> | 2021-11-17 08:07:42 -0800 |
| commit | c869259881a36fa86086efe661c74a6a9de5b169 (patch) | |
| tree | a7a831ad61fbf8e1f8dcf856c8cf6a16c5d5ca82 /drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h | |
| parent | 9c9463c29d1b957f2e4cbe31ad88a4b6a3086199 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c869259881a36fa86086efe661c74a6a9de5b169.tar.bz2 | |
ixgbevf: Mailbox improvements
Improve reliability of the mailbox communication and remove
its potential flaws that may lead to the undefined or faulty behavior.
Recently some users reported issues on ESX with 10G Intel NICs which were
found to be caused by incorrect implementation of the PF-VF mailbox
communication.
Technical investigation highlighted areas to improve in the communication
between PF or VF that wants to send the message (sender) and the other
part which receives the message (receiver):
- Locking the mailbox when the sender wants to send a message
- Releasing the mailbox when the communication ends
- Returning the result of the mailbox message execution
Signed-off-by: Radoslaw Tyl <radoslawx.tyl@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <tony.brelinski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h index 5d9284dd04dc..e257390a4f6a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf.h @@ -429,6 +429,7 @@ extern const struct ixgbevf_info ixgbevf_82599_vf_info; extern const struct ixgbevf_info ixgbevf_X540_vf_info; extern const struct ixgbevf_info ixgbevf_X550_vf_info; extern const struct ixgbevf_info ixgbevf_X550EM_x_vf_info; +extern const struct ixgbe_mbx_operations ixgbevf_mbx_ops; extern const struct ixgbe_mbx_operations ixgbevf_mbx_ops_legacy; extern const struct ixgbevf_info ixgbevf_x550em_a_vf_info; @@ -491,4 +492,8 @@ void ixgbe_napi_del_all(struct ixgbevf_adapter *adapter); #define hw_dbg(hw, format, arg...) \ netdev_dbg(ixgbevf_hw_to_netdev(hw), format, ## arg) + +s32 ixgbevf_poll_mbx(struct ixgbe_hw *hw, u32 *msg, u16 size); +s32 ixgbevf_write_mbx(struct ixgbe_hw *hw, u32 *msg, u16 size); + #endif /* _IXGBEVF_H_ */ |