Current mailbox CRQ could consists of both synchronous and async
responses from the PF. Synchronous responses are time critical
and should be handed over to the waiting tasks/context as quickly
as possible otherwise timeout occurs.
Above problem gets accentuated if CRQ consists of even single
async message. Hence, it is important to have quick handling of
synchronous messages and maybe deferred handling of async messages
This patch introduces separate ARQ(async receive queues) for the
async messages. These messages are processed later with repsect
to mailbox task while synchronous messages still gets processed
in context to mailbox interrupt.
ARQ is important as VF reset introduces some new async messages
like MBX_ASSERTING_RESET which adds up to the presssure on the
responses for synchronousmessages and they timeout even more
quickly.
Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds support of command interface for communication with
the IMP(Integrated Management Processor) for HNS3 Virtual Function
Driver.
Each VF has support of CQP(Command Queue Pair) ring interface.
Each CQP consis of send queue CSQ and receive queue CRQ.
There are various commands a VF may support, like to query frimware
version, TQP management, statistics, interrupt related, mailbox etc.
This also contains code to initialize the command queue, manage the
command queue descriptors and Rx/Tx protocol with the command processor
in the form of various commands/results and acknowledgements.
Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta <salil.mehta@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: lipeng <lipeng321@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Salil Mehta