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Command interface is used for configuring and querying FW when EMADs are not available. During the time that the driver sets up the asynchronous queues, it polls the command interface for getting completions. Then, there is a short period when asynchronous queues work, but EMADs are not available (marked in the code as nopoll = true). During this time, we send commands via command interface, but we do not poll it, as we can get an interrupt for the completion. Completions of command interface are received from HW in EQ0 (event queue 0). The usage of EQ0 instead of polling is done only 4 times during initialization and one time during tear down, but it makes an overhead during lifetime of the driver. For each interrupt, we have to check if we get events in EQ0 or EQ1 and handle them. This is really ineffective, especially because of the fact that EQ0 is used only as part of driver init/fini. Instead, we can poll command interface for each call of cmd_exec(). It means that when we send a command via command interface (as EMADs are not available), we will poll it, regardless of availability of the asynchronous queues. This will allow us to configure later only EQ1 and simplify the flow. Remove 'nopoll' indication and change mlxsw_pci_cmd_exec() to poll till answer/timeout regardless of queues' state. For now, completions are handled also by EQ0, but it will be removed in next patch. Additional cleanups will be added in next patches. Signed-off-by: Amit Cohen <amcohen@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e674c70380ceda953e0e45a77334c5d22e69938f.1712062203.git.petrm@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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