netdev - RE: [RFC PATCH v5 01/16] RDMA/irdma: Add driver framework definitions

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Date:   Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:19:07 +0000
From:   "Saleem, Shiraz" <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
CC:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>,
        "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Ismail, Mustafa" <mustafa.ismail@...el.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        "nhorman@...hat.com" <nhorman@...hat.com>,
        "sassmann@...hat.com" <sassmann@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v5 01/16] RDMA/irdma: Add driver framework
 definitions

> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 01/16] RDMA/irdma: Add driver framework
> definitions
> 
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:23:45AM +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote:
> > > Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v5 01/16] RDMA/irdma: Add driver framework
> > > definitions
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 10:12:36AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > > > From: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@...el.com>
> > > >
> > > > Register irdma as a virtbus driver capable of supporting virtbus
> > > > devices from multi-generation RDMA capable Intel HW. Establish the
> > > > interface with all supported netdev peer drivers and initialize HW.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@...el.com>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@...el.com>
> > > > drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/i40iw_if.c | 228 ++++++++++
> > > > drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/irdma_if.c | 449 ++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.c     | 573 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.h     | 599
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > >  4 files changed, 1849 insertions(+)  create mode 100644
> > > > drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/i40iw_if.c
> > > >  create mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/irdma_if.c
> > > >  create mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.c
> > > >  create mode 100644 drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/main.h
> > > >
> > >
> > > I didn't look in too much details, but three things caught my attention
> immediately:
> > > 1. Existence of ARP cache management logic in RDMA driver.
> >
> > Our HW has an independent ARP table for the rdma block.
> > driver needs to add an ARP table entry via an rdma admin queue command
> > before QP transitions to RTS.
> >
> > > 2. Extensive use of dev_*() prints while we have ibdev_*() prints
> > The ib device object is not available till the end of the device init
> > similarly its unavailable early on in device deinit flows. So dev_* is
> > all we can use in those places.
> 
> hns guys were thinking about changing this. It looks fine to just move the name
> assignment to the device allocation, then we don't have this weirdness

Did you mean moving name setting from ib_register_device to ib_device_alloc?
Will that work ok for how rvt is handling the names in rvt_set_ibdev_name
and its register?

This could migrate a lot of the dev_* to ibdev_* but there is still going to be a handful of
dev_* usages from our HW initialization in irdma_prob_dev since ib device allocation is
done in irdma_open.

> 
> Alternatively, you could do as netdev does and have a special name string when
> the name is NULL

Not sure I found what your referring to. 
Did you mean similar to use of netdev_name in __netdev_printk?

> 
> Either way, I feel like this should be fixed up it is very fragile to have two different
> print functions running around.
> 
> Jason