netdev - Re: [net 1/8] igb: Update queue reinit function to call dev

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Date:	Fri, 29 Nov 2013 23:52:26 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	carolyn.wyborny@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net 1/8] igb: Update queue reinit function to call dev_close
 when init of queues fails

On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 15:47 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:35:55 -0800
> 
> > From: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>
> > 
> > This patch adds a call to dev_close if the queue reinit fails in order
> > to make clearer to the user that the device is down.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>
> > Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> 
> This is a very bad approach to this problem.
> 
> Users absolutely do not expect their entire interface to go down
> simply because an ethtool request cannot be satisfied.  This is
> extremely poor quality of implementation.
> 
> And in this specific case it absolutely is not necessary.
> 
> The only thing that can fail is the queue allocation, so make a
> function which can preserve the previous configuration if the queue
> allocation fails.  How about "igb_reinit_interrupt_scheme".
> 
> Don't free the q vectors until the very last moment, when you know
> that the allocation of the new q vectors has succeeded.
> 
> I'm not applying this patch, it needs to be reimplemented more
> sanely, using the above suggestions or similar.
> 
> Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback Dave, I will drop this patch from the series so
that Carolyn can re-work the solution.

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