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Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 11:40:37 +0000
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To: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com>
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Subject: Re: [net-next v2 0/4] octeontx2: Improve mailbox tracing

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>:

On Tue, 13 May 2025 17:10:04 +0530 you wrote:
> Octeontx2 VF,PF and AF devices communicate using hardware
> shared mailbox region where VFs can only to talk to its PFs
> and PFs can only talk to AF. AF does the entire resource management
> for all PFs and VFs. The shared mbox region is used for synchronous
> requests (requests from PF to AF or VF to PF) and async notifications
> (notifications from AF to PFs or PF to VFs). Sending a request to AF
> from VF involves various stages like
> 1. VF allocates message in shared region
> 2. Triggers interrupt to PF
> 3. PF upon receiving interrupt from VF will copy the message
>    from VF<->PF region to PF<->AF region
> 4. Triggers interrupt to AF
> 5. AF processes it and writes response in PF<->AF region
> 6. Triggers interrupt to PF
> 7. PF copies responses from PF<->AF region to VF<->PF region
> 8. Triggers interrupt to Vf
> 9. VF reads response in VF<->PF region
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v2,1/4] octeontx2-af: convert dev_dbg to tracepoint in mbox
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/aa2263b3c3e2
  - [net-next,v2,2/4] octeontx2-af: Display names for CPT and UP messages
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ba7b63670312
  - [net-next,v2,3/4] octeontx2: Add pcifunc also to mailbox tracepoints
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/27d27a06b48e
  - [net-next,v2,4/4] octeontx2: Add new tracepoint otx2_msg_status
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/fa00077d8fd6

You are awesome, thank you!
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