[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kni: fix pci_enable_msix_range error handling
Andy Roulin
aroulin at cumulusnetworks.com
Mon Feb 5 20:46:02 CET 2018
Hi Ferruh,
You can drop it then. I encountered the same porting bug in another
project and came across dpdk's code and patchwork comments which helped me
debugging. I just thought I would contribute the fix back. If it's not
functional then just drop it :)
Andy
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:05 AM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote:
> On 12/18/2017 6:16 AM, Andy Roulin wrote:
> > pci_enable_msix_range's return value has a different meaning than what
> > was previously returned by pci_enable_msix.
> >
> > "It returns a negative errno if an error occurs. If it succeeds, it
> > returns the actual number of interrupts allocated and indicates the
> > successful configuration of MSI-X capability structure with new
> > allocated MSI-X interrupts."
> >
> > The following commit introduced pci_enable_msix_range:
> > dpdk: 9fb3cd2c ("kni: fix ethtool build with kernel 4.11")
> > http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/24076/
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> This is updating driver within KNI, and these drivers are used for ethtool
> support and most of the driver is already not used at all.
>
> I doubt the updated code is functional at all.
>
> Did you encounter any problem?
>
> These drivers are already outdated, and I am definitely not for actively
> maintaining them which is not required for ethtool support.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Roulin <aroulin at cumulusnetworks.com>
> > ---
> > lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_main.c | 6 ++++--
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_main.c
> b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_main.c
> > index e0f427a..32ef3b9 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_main.c
> > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/kni/ethtool/igb/igb_main.c
> > @@ -1043,14 +1043,16 @@ static void igb_set_interrupt_capability(struct
> igb_adapter *adapter, bool msix)
> > #ifdef HAVE_PCI_ENABLE_MSIX
> > err = pci_enable_msix(pdev,
> > adapter->msix_entries,
> numvecs);
> > + if (err == 0)
> > + break;
> > #else
> > err = pci_enable_msix_range(pdev,
> > adapter->msix_entries,
> > numvecs,
> > numvecs);
> > -#endif
> > - if (err == 0)
> > + if (err < 0)
> > break;
> > +#endif
> > }
> > /* MSI-X failed, so fall through and try MSI */
> > dev_warn(pci_dev_to_dev(pdev), "Failed to initialize MSI-X
> interrupts. "
> >
>
>
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