[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] i40e: fix handling of HW ATR eviction

Jeff Kirsher jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com
Thu May 4 21:53:04 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-05-04 at 14:16 -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> A recent commit to refactor the driver and remove the
> hw_disabled_flags
> field accidentally introduced two regressions. First, we overwrote
> pf->flags which removed various key flags including the MSI-X
> settings.
> 
> Additionally, it was intended that we have now two flags,
> HW_ATR_EVICT_CAPABLe and HW_ATR_EVICT_ENABLED, but this was not done,
> and we accidentally were mis-using HW_ATR_EVICT_CAPABLE everywhere.
> 
> This patch adds the missing piece, HW_ATR_EVICT_ENABLED, and safely
> updates pf->flags instead of overwriting it.
> 
> Without this patch we will have many problems including disabling
> MSI-X
> support, and we'll attempt to use HW ATR eviction on devices which do
> not support it.
> 
> Fixes: 47994c119a36 ("i40e: remove hw_disabled_flags in favor of
> using separate flag bits", 2017-04-19)
> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller at intel.com>
> ---
> Ok. For real, this actually cleans up and adds the missing feature
> that
> we should have had. I'm working on the rest, but this should fix the
> issue you were seeing without introducing other regressions.
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.h         | 1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c | 4 ++--
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c    | 7 ++++---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_txrx.c    | 4 ++--
>  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

 Ok is this the "final" version of the fix???
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