Re: [RDMA RFC v6 00/16] Intel RDMA Driver Updates 2020-05-19

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 10:59:46PM +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote:
> > Subject: Re: [RDMA RFC v6 00/16] Intel RDMA Driver Updates 2020-05-19
> > 
> > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 03:21:05PM +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote:
> > > > Subject: Re: [RDMA RFC v6 00/16] Intel RDMA Driver Updates
> > > > 2020-05-19
> > > >
> > >
> > > [......]
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking on it and see static assignments, to by dynamic you will need "to
> > play"
> > > > with hw_shifts/hw_masks later, but you don't. What am I missing?
> > > >
> > > > +	for (i = 0; i < IRDMA_MAX_SHIFTS; ++i)
> > > > +		dev->hw_shifts[i] = i40iw_shifts[i];
> > > > +
> > > > +	for (i = 0; i < IRDMA_MAX_MASKS; ++i)
> > > > +		dev->hw_masks[i] = i40iw_masks[i];
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > we still need to use the custom macro FLD_LS_64 without FIELD_PREP
> > > > > in this case as FIELD_PREP expects compile time constants.
> > > > > +#define FLD_LS_64(dev, val, field)	\
> > > > > +	(((u64)(val) << (dev)->hw_shifts[field ## _S]) &
> > > > > +(dev)->hw_masks[field ## _M])
> > > > > And the shifts are still required for these fields which causes a
> > > > > bit of inconsistency
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The device hw_masks/hw_shifts array store masks/shifts of those
> > > descriptor fields that have same name across HW generations but differ
> > > in some attribute such as field width. Yes they are statically
> > > assigned, initialized with values from i40iw_masks and icrdma_masks,
> > > depending on the HW generation. We can even use GENMASK for the values
> > > in i40iw_masks[] , icrdma_masks[] but FIELD_PREP cant be used on
> > > dev->hw_masks[]
> > 
> > So compute the shift and mask when building i40iw_shifts array using the compile
> > time constant?
> > 
> 
> i40iw_shifts[] and i40iw_mask[] are setup as compile constants
> and used to initialize dev->hw_masks[], dev->hw_shifts[] if the device is gen1.
> I still don't see how FIELD_PREP can be used on a value and
> dev->hw_masks[i].

Well, you can't, you'd still have to use this indirection, the point
was to make the #define macros consistent 

Jason