netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 3/5] octeontx2: Improve mailbox tracepoints for debugging

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Message-ID: <20250512182544.GW3339421@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 19:25:44 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>
Cc: andrew+netdev@...n.ch, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
	kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, gakula@...vell.com,
	hkelam@...vell.com, sgoutham@...vell.com, lcherian@...vell.com,
	bbhushan2@...vell.com, jerinj@...vell.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 3/5] octeontx2: Improve mailbox tracepoints for
 debugging

On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 02:11:54PM +0530, Subbaraya Sundeep wrote:
> There are various stages involved when a VF sends a message
> to AF. Say for a VF to send a message to AF below are the steps:
> 1. VF sends message to PF
> 2. PF receives interrupt from VF
> 3. PF forwards to AF
> 4. AF processes it and sends response back to PF
> 5. PF sends back the response to VF.
> This patch adds pcifunc which represents PF and VF device to the
> tracepoints otx2_msg_alloc, otx2_msg_send, otx2_msg_process so that
> it is easier to correlate which device allocated the message, which
> device forwarded it and which device processed that message.
> Also add message id in otx2_msg_send tracepoint to check which
> message is sent at any point of time from a device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>

The cover letter and other patches in this series are n/4.
But this is patch 3/5 (there is also a patch 3/4).
This doesn't seem right.