netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/7] mlx4: Added interrupts test support

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Date:	Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:16:47 +0200
From:	Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mlx4: Added interrupts test support

Roland Dreier wrote:
> This feels like a pretty risky thing to do while the device might be
> handling all sorts of other traffic at the same time.  Are you sure
> there are no races you expose here? 
We did testing on this, during heavy traffic.
A race can happen when there are two processes that execute that test simultaneously,
but the tests always executed from Ethtool context.
I will add additional protection in case somebody tries to execute this test from another context.

> Have you actually seen cases where
> the interrupt test during initialization works but then this test
> catches a problem?  (My experience has been that if any MSI-X interrupts
> work from a device, then they'll all work)
It also checks that all the EQs work properly. During initialization we only check the asynchronous EQ

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