netdev - Re: [PATCH iwl-next v1] ice: do not init struct ice

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Message-ID: <CADEbmW2D31pS16hegetagxSw+2ERs1Ze5P7WSnsaOGWegwku6A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:08:11 +0200
From: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
To: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>, Lukasz Czapnik <lukasz.czapnik@...el.com>, 
	Sergey Temerkhanov <sergey.temerkhanov@...el.com>, Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>, 
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-next v1] ice: do not init struct ice_adapter more
 times than needed

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 3:25 PM Przemek Kitszel
<przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com> wrote:
> Allocate and initialize struct ice_adapter object only once per physical
> card instead of once per port. This is not a big deal by now, but we want
> to extend this struct more and more in the near future. Our plans include
> PTP stuff and a devlink instance representing whole-device/physical card.
>
> Transactions requiring to be sleep-able (like those doing user (here ice)
> memory allocation) must be performed with an additional (on top of xarray)
> mutex. Adding it here removes need to xa_lock() manually.
>
> Since this commit is a reimplementation of ice_adapter_get(), a rather new
> scoped_guard() wrapper for locking is used to simplify the logic.
>
> It's worth to mention that xa_insert() use gives us both slot reservation
> and checks if it is already filled, what simplifies code a tiny bit.
>
> Reviewed-by: Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_adapter.c | 60 +++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>