netdev - Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-net 1/2] ice: reintroduce retry mechanism for indirect AQ

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Message-ID: <954dc352-2ad2-4950-9c8b-55ebafc5841c@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:15:59 +0100
From: Dawid Osuchowski <dawid.osuchowski@...ux.intel.com>
To: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
Cc: intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 stable@...r.kernel.org, Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@...el.com>,
 Jakub Staniszewski <jakub.staniszewski@...ux.intel.com>,
 Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>,
 Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-net 1/2] ice: reintroduce retry
 mechanism for indirect AQ

Hey Paul,

On 2026-01-13 11:31 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> [Cc: +Michal]
> 
> Dear Dawid, dear Jakub,
> 

...

> Am 13.01.26 um 20:38 schrieb Dawid Osuchowski:
>> Ccing Michal, given they are the author of the "reverted" commit.
> 
> At least Michal was not in the (visible) Cc: list

Interesting. I was using 'git send-email' without any suppression of Cc 
or similar options. In the direct email sent from me Michal is in Cc, 
seems the mailing list for some reason stripped him...

>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c | 12 +++++++++---
>>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>

...

>>       do {
>>           status = ice_sq_send_cmd(hw, cq, desc, buf, buf_size, cd);
>>           if (!is_cmd_for_retry || !status ||
>>               hw->adminq.sq_last_status != LIBIE_AQ_RC_EBUSY)
>>               break;
>> +        if (buf_cpy)
>> +            memcpy(buf, buf_cpy, buf_size);
>>           memcpy(desc, &desc_cpy, sizeof(desc_cpy));
>> -
> 
> Unrelated change?
> 

During internal review it was pointed out that this function contains a 
lot of empty lines, this was my feeble attempt to at least partially 
reduce their count.

>>           msleep(ICE_SQ_SEND_DELAY_TIME_MS);
>>       } while (++idx < ICE_SQ_SEND_MAX_EXECUTE);
>> +    kfree(buf_cpy);
>>       return status;
>>   }
> 
> The diff looks good otherwise.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Paul

Thanks,
Dawid