Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: use meaningful names for IRQs

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 12:58:04 -0700
Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com> wrote:

> From: Rick Farrington <ricardo.farrington@cavium.com>
> 
> All IRQs owned by the PF and VF drivers share the same nondescript name
> "octeon"; this makes it difficult to setup interrupt affinity.
> 
> Change the IRQ names to reflect their specific purpose:
> 
>     LiquidIO<id>-<func>-<type>-<queue pair num>
> 
> Examples:
>     LiquidIO0-pf0-rxtx-3
>     LiquidIO1-vf1-rxtx-0
>     LiquidIO0-pf0-aux
> 
> We cannot use netdev->name for naming the IRQs because:
> 
>     1.  Early during init, the PF and VF drivers require interrupts to
>         send/receive control data from the NIC firmware; so the PF and VF
>         must request IRQs long before the netdev struct is registered.
> 
>     2.  The IRQ name can only be specified at the time it is requested.
>         It cannot be changed after that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rick Farrington <ricardo.farrington@cavium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Satanand Burla <satananda.burla@cavium.com>

Irqbalance used to parse the interrupt names and expect the network device name.