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Message-ID: <20240103153405.6b19492a@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 15:34:05 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, Johannes Berg
 <johannes.berg@...el.com>, Marc MERLIN <marc@...lins.org>, Przemek Kitszel
 <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] net: ethtool: do runtime PM outside RTNL

On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 11:30:17 +0100 Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> > I was really, really hoping that this would serve as a motivation
> > for Intel to sort out the igb/igc implementation. The flow AFAICT
> > is ndo_open() starts the NIC, the calls pm_sus, which shuts the NIC
> > back down immediately (!?) then it schedules a link check from a work  
> 
> It's not like that. pm_runtime_put() in igc_open() does not disable device.
> It calls runtime_idle callback which check if there is link and if is
> not, schedule device suspend in 5 second, otherwise device stays running.

Hm, I missed the 5 sec delay there. Next question for me is - how does
it not deadlock in the open?

igc_open()
  __igc_open(resuming=false)
    if (!resuming)
      pm_runtime_get_sync(&pdev->dev);

igc_resume()
  rtnl_lock()

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