[PATCH net-next 14/15] net: dpaa: Replace in_irq() usage.

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Sun Nov 1 04:12:15 AEDT 2020


On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:54:53 +0100 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> The driver uses in_irq() + in_serving_softirq() magic to decide if NAPI
> scheduling is required or packet processing.
> 
> The usage of in_*() in drivers is phased out and Linus clearly requested
> that code which changes behaviour depending on context should either be
> seperated or the context be conveyed in an argument passed by the caller,
> which usually knows the context.
> 
> Use the `napi' argument passed by the callback. It is set true if
> called from the interrupt handler and NAPI should be scheduled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
> Cc: "Horia Geantă" <horia.geanta at nxp.com>
> Cc: Aymen Sghaier <aymen.sghaier at nxp.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
> Cc: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur at nxp.com>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
> Cc: Li Yang <leoyang.li at nxp.com>
> Cc: linux-crypto at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
> index 27835310b718e..2c949acd74c67 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa/dpaa_eth.c
> @@ -2300,9 +2300,9 @@ static void dpaa_tx_conf(struct net_device *net_dev,
>  }
>  
>  static inline int dpaa_eth_napi_schedule(struct dpaa_percpu_priv *percpu_priv,
> -					 struct qman_portal *portal)
> +					 struct qman_portal *portal, bool napi)
>  {
> -	if (unlikely(in_irq() || !in_serving_softirq())) {
> +	if (napi) {
>  		/* Disable QMan IRQ and invoke NAPI */
>  		qman_p_irqsource_remove(portal, QM_PIRQ_DQRI);
>  

Nit: some networking drivers have a bool napi which means "are we
running in napi context", the semantics here feel a little backwards,
at least to me. But if I'm the only one thinking this, so be it.


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