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Date:   Thu, 3 Dec 2020 14:38:16 +0000
From:   "Kiyanovski, Arthur" <akiyano@...zon.com>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     "Woodhouse, David" <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>,
        "Machulsky, Zorik" <zorik@...zon.com>,
        "Matushevsky, Alexander" <matua@...zon.com>,
        "Bshara, Saeed" <saeedb@...zon.com>,
        "Wilson, Matt" <msw@...zon.com>,
        "Liguori, Anthony" <aliguori@...zon.com>,
        "Bshara, Nafea" <nafea@...zon.com>,
        "Tzalik, Guy" <gtzalik@...zon.com>,
        "Belgazal, Netanel" <netanel@...zon.com>,
        "Saidi, Ali" <alisaidi@...zon.com>,
        "Herrenschmidt, Benjamin" <benh@...zon.com>,
        "Dagan, Noam" <ndagan@...zon.com>,
        "Agroskin, Shay" <shayagr@...zon.com>,
        "Jubran, Samih" <sameehj@...zon.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH V3 net-next 1/9] net: ena: use constant value for net_device
 allocation



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 11:55 PM
> To: Kiyanovski, Arthur <akiyano@...zon.com>; kuba@...nel.org;
> netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Woodhouse, David <dwmw@...zon.co.uk>; Machulsky, Zorik
> <zorik@...zon.com>; Matushevsky, Alexander <matua@...zon.com>;
> Bshara, Saeed <saeedb@...zon.com>; Wilson, Matt <msw@...zon.com>;
> Liguori, Anthony <aliguori@...zon.com>; Bshara, Nafea
> <nafea@...zon.com>; Tzalik, Guy <gtzalik@...zon.com>; Belgazal,
> Netanel <netanel@...zon.com>; Saidi, Ali <alisaidi@...zon.com>;
> Herrenschmidt, Benjamin <benh@...zon.com>; Dagan, Noam
> <ndagan@...zon.com>; Agroskin, Shay <shayagr@...zon.com>; Jubran,
> Samih <sameehj@...zon.com>
> Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH V3 net-next 1/9] net: ena: use constant
> value for net_device allocation
> 
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> 
> Am 02.12.2020 um 21:03 schrieb akiyano@...zon.com:
> > From: Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@...zon.com>
> >
> > The patch changes the maximum number of RX/TX queues it advertises to
> > the kernel (via alloc_etherdev_mq()) from a value received from the
> > device to a constant value which is the minimum between 128 and the
> > number of CPUs in the system.
> >
> > By allocating the net_device struct with a constant number of queues,
> > the driver is able to allocate it at a much earlier stage, before
> > calling any ena_com functions. This would allow to make all log prints
> > in ena_com to use netdev_* log functions instead or current pr_* ones.
> >
> 
> Did you test this? Usually using netdev_* before the net_device is registered
> results in quite ugly messages. Therefore there's a number of patches doing
> the opposite, replacing netdev_* with dev_* before register_netdev(). See
> e.g.
> 22148df0d0bd ("r8169: don't use netif_info et al before net_device has been
> registered")

Thanks for your comment.
Yes we did test it.
Please see the discussion which led to this patch in a previous thread here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg353590.html
 
> > Signed-off-by: Shay Agroskin <shayagr@...zon.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Arthur Kiyanovski <akiyano@...zon.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c | 46
> > ++++++++++----------
> >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c
> > b/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c
> > index df1884d57d1a..985dea1870b5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_netdev.c
> > @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> >  /* Time in jiffies before concluding the transmitter is hung. */
> > #define TX_TIMEOUT  (5 * HZ)
> >
> > +#define ENA_MAX_RINGS min_t(unsigned int,
> ENA_MAX_NUM_IO_QUEUES,
> > +num_possible_cpus())
> > +
> >  #define ENA_NAPI_BUDGET 64
> >
> >  #define DEFAULT_MSG_ENABLE (NETIF_MSG_DRV | NETIF_MSG_PROBE
> |
> > NETIF_MSG_IFUP | \ @@ -4176,18 +4178,34 @@ static int
> ena_probe(struct
> > pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> >
> >       ena_dev->dmadev = &pdev->dev;
> >
> > +     netdev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(struct ena_adapter),
> ENA_MAX_RINGS);
> > +     if (!netdev) {
> > +             dev_err(&pdev->dev, "alloc_etherdev_mq failed\n");
> > +             rc = -ENOMEM;
> > +             goto err_free_region;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     SET_NETDEV_DEV(netdev, &pdev->dev);
> > +     adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
> > +     adapter->ena_dev = ena_dev;
> > +     adapter->netdev = netdev;
> > +     adapter->pdev = pdev;
> > +     adapter->msg_enable = netif_msg_init(debug,
> DEFAULT_MSG_ENABLE);
> > +
> > +     pci_set_drvdata(pdev, adapter);
> > +
> >       rc = ena_device_init(ena_dev, pdev, &get_feat_ctx, &wd_state);
> >       if (rc) {
> >               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "ENA device init failed\n");
> >               if (rc == -ETIME)
> >                       rc = -EPROBE_DEFER;
> > -             goto err_free_region;
> > +             goto err_netdev_destroy;
> >       }
> >
> >       rc = ena_map_llq_mem_bar(pdev, ena_dev, bars);
> >       if (rc) {
> >               dev_err(&pdev->dev, "ENA llq bar mapping failed\n");
> > -             goto err_free_ena_dev;
> > +             goto err_device_destroy;
> >       }
> >
> >       calc_queue_ctx.ena_dev = ena_dev; @@ -4207,26 +4225,8 @@ static
> > int ena_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> >               goto err_device_destroy;
> >       }
> >
> > -     /* dev zeroed in init_etherdev */
> > -     netdev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(struct ena_adapter),
> max_num_io_queues);
> > -     if (!netdev) {
> > -             dev_err(&pdev->dev, "alloc_etherdev_mq failed\n");
> > -             rc = -ENOMEM;
> > -             goto err_device_destroy;
> > -     }
> > -
> > -     SET_NETDEV_DEV(netdev, &pdev->dev);
> > -
> > -     adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
> > -     pci_set_drvdata(pdev, adapter);
> > -
> > -     adapter->ena_dev = ena_dev;
> > -     adapter->netdev = netdev;
> > -     adapter->pdev = pdev;
> > -
> >       ena_set_conf_feat_params(adapter, &get_feat_ctx);
> >
> > -     adapter->msg_enable = netif_msg_init(debug,
> DEFAULT_MSG_ENABLE);
> >       adapter->reset_reason = ENA_REGS_RESET_NORMAL;
> >
> >       adapter->requested_tx_ring_size = calc_queue_ctx.tx_queue_size;
> > @@ -4257,7 +4257,7 @@ static int ena_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const
> struct pci_device_id *ent)
> >       if (rc) {
> >               dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> >                       "Failed to query interrupt moderation feature\n");
> > -             goto err_netdev_destroy;
> > +             goto err_device_destroy;
> >       }
> >       ena_init_io_rings(adapter,
> >                         0,
> > @@ -4335,11 +4335,11 @@ static int ena_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
> const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> >       ena_disable_msix(adapter);
> >  err_worker_destroy:
> >       del_timer(&adapter->timer_service);
> > -err_netdev_destroy:
> > -     free_netdev(netdev);
> >  err_device_destroy:
> >       ena_com_delete_host_info(ena_dev);
> >       ena_com_admin_destroy(ena_dev);
> > +err_netdev_destroy:
> > +     free_netdev(netdev);
> >  err_free_region:
> >       ena_release_bars(ena_dev, pdev);
> >  err_free_ena_dev:
> >

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