Subject: RE: [PATCH 07/22] RDMA/irdma: Register an auxiliary driver and implement private channel OPs

From: "Saleem, Shiraz" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 01:19:36 +0000

> Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/22] RDMA/irdma: Register an auxiliary driver and
> implement private channel OPs
> 
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 07:16:41PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 10:17:56PM +0000, Saleem, Shiraz wrote:
> >
> > > Even with another core PCI driver, there still needs to be private
> > > communication channel between the aux rdma driver and this PCI
> > > driver to pass things like QoS updates.
> >
> > Data pushed from the core driver to its aux drivers should either be
> > done through new callbacks in a struct device_driver or by having a
> > notifier chain scheme from the core driver.
> 
> Right, and internal to driver/core device_lock will protect from parallel
> probe/remove and PCI flows.
> 

OK. We will hold the device_lock while issuing the .ops callbacks from core driver.
This should solve our synchronization issue.

There have been a few discussions in this thread. And I would like to be clear on what
to do.

So we will,

1. Remove .open/.close, .peer_register/.peer_unregister
2. Protect ops callbacks issued from core driver to the aux driver with device_lock
3. Move the custom iidc_peer_op callbacks to an irdma driver struct that encapsulates the auxiliary driver struct. For core driver to use.
4. Remove ice FSM around open, close etc...
5. RDMA aux driver probe will allocate ib_device and register it at the end of probe.

Does this sound acceptable?