Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] myri10ge - First half of the driver

From: Roland Dreier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:04:20 -0700

> +typedef struct {
 > +	mcp_kreq_ether_recv_t __iomem *lanai;	/* lanai ptr for recv ring */
 > +	volatile uint8_t __iomem *wc_fifo;	/* w/c rx dma addr fifo address */
 > +	mcp_kreq_ether_recv_t *shadow;	/* host shadow of recv ring */
 > +	struct myri10ge_rx_buffer_state *info;
 > +	int cnt;
 > +	int alloc_fail;
 > +	int mask;			/* number of rx slots -1 */
 > +} myri10ge_rx_buf_t;

Why is wc_fifo volatile?  The only places you actually use it, you
seem to cast away the volatile anyway.

Also, again, no typedef of structures please.

 > +#define myri10ge_pio_copy(to,from,size) __iowrite64_copy(to,from,size/8)

Why do you need this wrapper?  Why not just call __iowrite64_copy()
without the obfuscation?  Anyone reading the code will just have to
search back to this define and mentally translate the size back and
forth all the time.

 > +int myri10ge_hyper_msi_cap_on(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 > +{
 > +	uint8_t cap_off;
 > +	int nbcap = 0;
 > +
 > +	cap_off = PCI_CAPABILITY_LIST - 1;
 > +	/* go through all caps looking for a hypertransport msi mapping */

This looks like something that should be fixed up in the general PCI
quirk handling rather than in every driver...

 > +static int
 > +myri10ge_use_msi(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 > +{
 > +	if (myri10ge_msi == 1 || myri10ge_msi == 0)
 > +		return myri10ge_msi;
 > +
 > +	/*  find root complex for our device */
 > +	while (pdev->bus && pdev->bus->self) {
 > +		pdev = pdev->bus->self;
 > +	}

Similarly looks like generic PCI code (if it's needed at all).  If I
understand correctly you're trying to check if MSI has a chance at
working on the system, but a network device driver has no business
walking up the PCI hierarchy.

 > +	buf = (mcp_cmd_t *) ((unsigned long)(buf_bytes + 7) & ~7UL);

ALIGN() from <linux/kernel.h>?

 - R.