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

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Message-ID: <aCMJHfYbws-amobR@f65018e88ba3>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 08:55:57 +0000
From: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
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

Hi Simon,

On 2025-05-12 at 18:25:44, Simon Horman (horms@...nel.org) wrote:
> 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.
Yes you are right. Some stale patch in the directory sent by mistake.
Please ignore this. Will send v2.

Thanks,
Sundeep