netdev - Re: Re: [PATCH] ena: Speed up initialization 90x by reducing poll delays

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Date:   Sun, 12 Apr 2020 13:27:14 -0700
From:   Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:     "Jubran, Samih" <sameehj@...zon.com>
Cc:     "Machulsky, Zorik" <zorik@...zon.com>,
        "Belgazal, Netanel" <netanel@...zon.com>,
        "Kiyanovski, Arthur" <akiyano@...zon.com>,
        "Tzalik, Guy" <gtzalik@...zon.com>,
        "Bshara, Saeed" <saeedb@...zon.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] ena: Speed up initialization 90x by reducing poll
 delays

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 09:37:22AM +0000, Jubran, Samih wrote:
> I wanted to let you know that we are still looking into your patch. 
> After some careful considerations we have decided to set the value of 
> ENA_POLL_US to 100us. The rationale behind this choice is that the 
> device might take up to 1ms to complete the reset operation and we 
> don't want to bombard device. We do agree with most of your patch 
> and we will be sending one based on it for review.

Thank you, that sounds entirely reasonable.

Please also consider making the probing asynchronous (via linux/async.h)
to allow other initialization to happen in parallel.