[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] net/mlx4: return EAGAIN on premature disable interrupt calls

[Ophir Munk]

RXQ interrupts under Linux are based on the epoll mechanism. An
expected order of operations is as follows:
1. Call rte_eth_dev_rx_intr_enable(), to arm the CQ for receiving events
on data input.
2. Block on rte_epoll_wait() with an array of file descriptors
representing the CQ events. Upon data arrival the kernel will signal an
input event on the corresponding CQ fd.
3. Call rte_eth_dev_rx_intr_disable() after the event was received and
continue in polling mode. The mlx4 implementation of
rte_eth_dev_rx_intr_disable() is to get the CQ event and ack it.

In practice applications may wake up from rte_epoll_wait() due to
timeout with no event to ack but still call
rte_eth_dev_rx_intr_disable() unconditionally.  In such cases the call
should return EAGAIN (since the file descriptors are non-blocked), as
opposed to EINVAL which indicates a real failure.  In case of EAGAIN the
PMD should not warn on "unable to disable interrupt on rx queue".

Signed-off-by: Ophir Munk <ophirmu at mellanox.com>
---
 drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_intr.c | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_intr.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_intr.c
index 020fc25..19af935 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_intr.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_intr.c
@@ -326,13 +326,20 @@ mlx4_rx_intr_disable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, uint16_t idx)
 	} else {
 		ret = mlx4_glue->get_cq_event(rxq->cq->channel, &ev_cq,
 					      &ev_ctx);
-		if (ret || ev_cq != rxq->cq)
+		/** For non-zero ret save the errno (may be EAGAIN
+		 * which means the get_cq_event function was called before
+		 * receiving one).
+		 */
+		if (ret)
+			ret = errno;
+		else if (ev_cq != rxq->cq)
 			ret = EINVAL;
 	}
 	if (ret) {
 		rte_errno = ret;
-		WARN("unable to disable interrupt on rx queue %d",
-		     idx);
+		if (ret != EAGAIN)
+			WARN("unable to disable interrupt on rx queue %d",
+			     idx);
 	} else {
 		rxq->mcq.arm_sn++;
 		mlx4_glue->ack_cq_events(rxq->cq, 1);
-- 
2.8.4