netdev - Re: [PATCH net 6/8] ice: implement AQ download pkg retry

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Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 10:25:16 +0200
From: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>, Brett Creeley
	<brett.creeley@....com>, Pucha Himasekhar Reddy
	<himasekharx.reddy.pucha@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 6/8] ice: implement AQ download pkg retry



On 30.05.2024 18:50, Jacob Keller wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/29/2024 6:51 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 15:06:09 -0700 Jacob Keller wrote:
>>> +		while (try_cnt < 5) {
>>> +			status = ice_aq_download_pkg(hw, bh, ICE_PKG_BUF_SIZE,
>>> +						     last, &offset, &info,
>>> +						     NULL);
>>> +			if (hw->adminq.sq_last_status != ICE_AQ_RC_ENOSEC &&
>>> +			    hw->adminq.sq_last_status != ICE_AQ_RC_EBADSIG)
>>> +				break;
>>> +
>>> +			try_cnt++;
>>> +			msleep(20);
>>> +		}
>>> +
>>> +		if (try_cnt)
>>> +			dev_dbg(ice_hw_to_dev(hw),
>>> +				"ice_aq_download_pkg number of retries: %d\n",
>>> +				try_cnt);
>>>  
>>
>> That's not a great wait loop. Last iteration sleeps for 20msec and then
>> gives up without checking the condition.
> 
> Yea, that seems rather silly.
> 
> @Wojciech, would you please look into this?

Sure, I'll send next version