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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_iov.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_iov.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_iov.c index 0b37e197e300..5b08e6284a3c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_iov.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/fm10k/fm10k_iov.c @@ -113,6 +113,13 @@ s32 fm10k_iov_mbx(struct fm10k_intfc *interface) /* lock the mailbox for transmit and receive */ fm10k_mbx_lock(interface); + /* Most VF messages sent to the PF cause the PF to respond by + * requesting from the SM mailbox. This means that too many VF + * messages processed at once could cause a mailbox timeout on the PF. + * To prevent this, store a pointer to the next VF mbx to process. Use + * that as the start of the loop so that we don't starve whichever VF + * got ignored on the previous run. + */ process_mbx: for (i = iov_data->next_vf_mbx ? : iov_data->num_vfs; i--;) { struct fm10k_vf_info *vf_info = &iov_data->vf_info[i]; @@ -137,6 +144,10 @@ process_mbx: mbx->ops.process(hw, mbx); } + /* if we stopped processing mailboxes early, update next_vf_mbx. + * Otherwise, reset next_vf_mbx, and restart loop so that we process + * the remaining mailboxes we skipped at the start. + */ if (i >= 0) { iov_data->next_vf_mbx = i + 1; } else if (iov_data->next_vf_mbx) { |