netdev - Re: [PATCH iwl-next 1/2] i40e: Remove VF MAC types

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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:20:02 -0700
From: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>
CC: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "Jesse
 Brandeburg" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, Tony Nguyen
	<anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, "Eric
 Dumazet" <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni
	<pabeni@...hat.com>, <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-next 1/2] i40e: Remove VF MAC types



On 10/25/2023 5:20 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 02:16:39PM CEST, jiri@...nulli.us wrote:
>> Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 12:48:37PM CEST, wojciech.drewek@...el.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25.10.2023 12:33, Ivan Vecera wrote:
>>>> The i40e_hw.mac.type cannot to be equal to I40E_MAC_VF or
>>>> I40E_MAC_X722_VF so remove helper i40e_is_vf(), simplify
>>>> i40e_adminq_init_regs() and remove enums for these VF MAC types.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c | 33 ++++++-------------
>>>>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_type.h   |  8 -----
>>>>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c
>>>> index 29fc46abf690..896c43905309 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_adminq.c
>>>> @@ -17,29 +17,16 @@ static void i40e_resume_aq(struct i40e_hw *hw);
>>>>  static void i40e_adminq_init_regs(struct i40e_hw *hw)
>>>>  {
>>>>  	/* set head and tail registers in our local struct */
>>>> -	if (i40e_is_vf(hw)) {
>>>> -		hw->aq.asq.tail = I40E_VF_ATQT1;
>>>> -		hw->aq.asq.head = I40E_VF_ATQH1;
>>>> -		hw->aq.asq.len  = I40E_VF_ATQLEN1;
>>>> -		hw->aq.asq.bal  = I40E_VF_ATQBAL1;
>>>> -		hw->aq.asq.bah  = I40E_VF_ATQBAH1;
>>>> -		hw->aq.arq.tail = I40E_VF_ARQT1;
>>>> -		hw->aq.arq.head = I40E_VF_ARQH1;
>>>> -		hw->aq.arq.len  = I40E_VF_ARQLEN1;
>>>> -		hw->aq.arq.bal  = I40E_VF_ARQBAL1;
>>>> -		hw->aq.arq.bah  = I40E_VF_ARQBAH1;
>>>
>>> What about removing those I40E_VF_* defines?
>>> This is their only usage here, right?
>>
>> Wait, do you suggest to use the values directly? That would be
>> wild even for i40e :)
> 
> Ah, sec. This is duplicated in
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_register.h. That confused me.
> 

Its possible the iAVF code could be cleaned up too... Historically the
i40e and i40evf duplicated quite some code.