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From: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/4] ionic: recover from ringsize change failure
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:42:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5cf99807-2362-cec0-dbad-8f23ba627b04@pensando.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200724.194417.2151242753657227232.davem@davemloft.net>

On 7/24/20 7:44 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:23:24 -0700
>
>> If the ringsize change fails, try restoring the previous setting.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
> You really can't recover properly, or reliably, with the way all of this
> is structured in the ionic driver.  This is at best a half attempt at
> error recovery.
>
> Doing a full ionic_open() call abstracts things too heavily.
>
> What you need to do is save away the current queue memory and object,
> without freeing them, and only release them when you can successfully
> setup the new queues.
>
> This is the only way you can properly recover from errors in this
> operation, with a proper check/commit sequence.
>
> I'd rather not merge half solutions to this problem, sorry.

Sure, thanks anyway.
sln


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-27 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-25  0:23 [PATCH net-next 0/4] ionic txrx updates Shannon Nelson
2020-07-25  0:23 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] ionic: use fewer firmware doorbells on rx fill Shannon Nelson
2020-07-25  0:23 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] ionic: recover from ringsize change failure Shannon Nelson
2020-07-25  2:44   ` David Miller
2020-07-27 16:42     ` Shannon Nelson [this message]
2020-07-25  0:23 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] ionic: tx separate servicing Shannon Nelson
2020-07-25  0:23 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] ionic: separate interrupt for Tx and Rx Shannon Nelson
2020-07-25  0:56   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-07-27 16:37     ` Shannon Nelson

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