[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] vfio: fix broken msix interrupt initialization

[David Marchand]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 4:36 PM Nithin Dabilpuram
<ndabilpuram at marvell.com> wrote:
>
> A final patch for below mentioned RFC patch discussions.
>
> [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] vfio: revert change that does intr eventfd setup at probe
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-July/138358.html
>  [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] eal: add mask and unmask interrupt APIs
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-July/138357.html
> [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] drivers/net: use unmask API in interrupt handlers
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-July/138359.html
>
> Please also refer to below discussions
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-July/138184.html
> http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/dev/2019-July/138113.html
>
> This patch set basically reverts vfio patch that moves eventfd setup
> to probe time (1/3) because msix initialization is broken.
> It adds new ack interrupt api for purposes of simple and light
> weight ack method and also to avoid race conditions
> that was the root cause of this discussion.

Thanks a lot for working on this.

I only have small comments (sent in separate mails), you already did
all the work.
I prepared incremental patches if you agree with those comments:
- patch 2 https://github.com/david-marchand/dpdk/commit/374acb3409c206ffcb1bf6b5a7e8bb0bfca4e2b9
- patch 3 https://github.com/david-marchand/dpdk/commit/71102b9301b2a55a057a605f8e48e4a24f9d74a3

And a squashed branch:
https://github.com/david-marchand/dpdk/commits/interrupt_fixes


-- 
David Marchand