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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ath10k: Keep track of which interrupts fired, don't poll them
On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 4:14 PM Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 4:03 PM Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> wrote:
> > If I'm reading correctly, you're removing the only remaining use of
> > 'per_ce_irq'. Should we kill the field entirely?
>
> Ah, you are indeed correct! I hadn't noticed that. Unless I hear
> otherwise, I'll send a v2 tomorrow that removes the field entirely.

A healthy middle ground might put that in a patch 2, so it's easily
dropped if desired. *shrug*

> > Or perhaps we should
> > leave some kind of WARN_ON() (BUG_ON()?) if this function is called
> > erroneously with per_ce_irq==true? But I suppose this driver is full
> > of landmines if the CE API is used incorrectly.
>
> Yeah, I originally had a WARN_ON() here and then took it out because
> it seemed like extra overhead and, as you said, someone writing the
> code has to know how the API works already I think. ...but I'll add
> it back in if people want.

I believe WARN_ON() and friends have a built-in unlikely(), so it
shouldn't have much overhead. But I don't really mind either way.

> > Do you need to clear this map if the interface goes down or if there's
> > a firmware crash? Right now, I don't think there's a guarantee that
> > we'll run through a NAPI poll in those cases, which is the only place
> > you clear the map, and if the hardware/firmware has been reset, the
> > state map is probably not valid.
>
> Seems like a good idea. Is the right place at the start of
> ath10k_snoc_hif_start()?

Either there or in .power_down()/.power_up(). I think either would be
equally correct, but I'm not entirely sure if the semantic difference
is meaningful for this.

Brian

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