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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 19:00:11 +0200 From: Maciej Fijalkowski <maciej.fijalkowski@...el.com> To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> Cc: bpf@...r.kernel.org, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, magnus.karlsson@...el.com, bjorn@...nel.org, Alexandr Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 01/10] ice: allow toggling loopback mode via ndo_set_features callback On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 09:47:40AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:00:40 +0200 Maciej Fijalkowski wrote: > > > Loopback or not, I don't think we should be accepting the shutdown -> > > > set config -> pray approach in modern drivers. ice_open() seems to be > > > allocating all the Rx memory, and can fail. > > > > They say that those who sing pray twice, so why don't we sing? :) > > > > But seriously, I'll degrade this to ice_down/up and check retvals. I think > > I just mimicked flow from ice_self_test(), which should be fixed as > > well... > > > > I'll send v4. > > checking retval is not enough, does ice not have the ability to > allocate resources upfront? I think iavf was already restructured > to follow the "resilient" paradigm, time for ice to follow suit? I'm not aware of such restructure TBH. FWIW ice_down() won't free irqs/rings. I said I'll switch to it plus check its retval whereas I feel like you took it like I would want to keep the ice_stop() and check its retval. > > This is something DaveM complained about in the first Ethernet driver > I upstreamed, which must have been a decade ago by now. It's time we > all get on board :)
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