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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	raghu.vatsavayi@cavium.com, derek.chickles@cavium.com,
	satananda.burla@cavium.com, ricardo.farrington@cavium.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] liquidio: use meaningful names for IRQs
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:15:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170320081530.0f4cdbee@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170313195804.GA1796@felix2.cavium.com>

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-20 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-13 19:58 [PATCH net-next] liquidio: use meaningful names for IRQs Felix Manlunas
2017-03-17  3:20 ` David Miller
2017-03-20  8:26   ` Mintz, Yuval
2017-03-20 15:15 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-04-03  9:55 ` Sunil Kovvuri
2017-04-03 15:03   ` Ricardo Farrington
2017-04-03 17:42     ` Sunil Kovvuri

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