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Commit fd3c615a authored by Mintz, Yuval's avatar Mintz, Yuval Committed by David S. Miller
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qed: Fix race with multiple VFs



A PF syncronizes all IOV activity relating to its VFs
by using a single workqueue handling the work.
The workqueue would reach a bitmask of pending VF events
and act upon each in turn.

Problem is that the indication of a VF message [which sets
the 'vf event' bit for that VF] arrives and is set in
the slowpath attention context, which isn't syncronized with
the processing of the events.
When multiple VFs are present, it's possible that PF would
lose the indication of one of the VF's pending evens, leading
that VF to later timeout.

Instead of adding locks/barriers, simply move from a bitmask
into a per-VF indication inside that VF entry in the PF database.

Signed-off-by: default avatarYuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 4ca257ee
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