netdev - [PATCH net 0/4] nfp: improve signal handing on FW waits and flower control message processing

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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:47:34 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 0/4] nfp: improve signal handing on FW waits and flower control message processing

Hi!

The first part of this set aims to improve handling of interrupted
waits.  Patch 1 makes waiting for management FW responses
uninterruptible while patch 2 adds a message when signal arrives
while waiting for an NFP mutex.  We can't interrupt execution of
FW commands so uninterruptible sleep seems reasonable there.
Exiting a wait for a mutex should be clean and have no side affects
so we are allowing to abort it.  Note that both waits have rather
large timeouts (tens of seconds).

Patches 3 and 4 improve flower offload operation under heavy load.
Currently there is no cap on the number of queued FW notifications.
Some of the notifications have to be processed from a workqueue
which may lead to very large number of messages getting queued
if workqueue never gets a chance to run.  Pieter puts a limit
on number of queued messages, tries to drop some messages we ignore
without queuing and process more important messages first.

Jakub Kicinski (2):
  nfp: ignore signals when communicating with management FW
  nfp: print a message when mutex wait is interrupted

Pieter Jansen van Vuuren (2):
  nfp: flower: move route ack control messages out of the workqueue
  nfp: flower: split and limit cmsg skb lists

 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.c   | 44 ++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/cmsg.h   |  2 +
 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.c   |  6 ++-
 drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/flower/main.h   |  8 +++-
 .../net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_mutex.c |  5 ++-
 .../net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.c   |  3 +-
 6 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

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