netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: use meaningful names for IRQs

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Date:   Mon, 3 Apr 2017 15:25:48 +0530
From:   Sunil Kovvuri <sunil.kovvuri@...il.com>
To:     Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@...ium.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Vatsavayi, Raghu" <raghu.vatsavayi@...ium.com>,
        "Chickles, Derek" <derek.chickles@...ium.com>,
        satananda.burla@...ium.com, ricardo.farrington@...ium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: use meaningful names for IRQs

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Felix Manlunas
<felix.manlunas@...ium.com> wrote:
> From: Rick Farrington <ricardo.farrington@...ium.com>
>
> All IRQs owned by the PF and VF drivers share the same nondescript name
> "octeon"; this makes it difficult to setup interrupt affinity.
>
> Change the IRQ names to reflect their specific purpose:
>
>     LiquidIO<id>-<func>-<type>-<queue pair num>
>
> Examples:
>     LiquidIO0-pf0-rxtx-3
>     LiquidIO1-vf1-rxtx-0
>     LiquidIO0-pf0-aux

Probably too late, but just my 2 cents.

If there are multiple LiquidIO cards connected in a system, wouldn't the same
issue of how to setup IRQ affinities arise ?
How do you map netdev->name to IRQ name ?

>
> We cannot use netdev->name for naming the IRQs because:
>
>     1.  Early during init, the PF and VF drivers require interrupts to
>         send/receive control data from the NIC firmware; so the PF and VF
>         must request IRQs long before the netdev struct is registered.
>
>     2.  The IRQ name can only be specified at the time it is requested.
>         It cannot be changed after that.

You can try splitting IRQ registration and register IRQs for sending/receiving
control data with above naming but for queues, IRQs can be registered after
netdev struct is registered.

Thanks,
Sunil.