>From: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> 
>Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 1:07 PM
>To: Rasesh Mody <rm...@marvell.com>
>Cc: dev@dpdk.org; sta...@dpdk.org; Shahed Shaikh <shsha...@marvell.com>
>Subject: Re: [EXT] [PATCH] net/qede: remove interrupt reconfigure in handler

>On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:50 AM Rasesh Mody <mailto:rm...@marvell.com> wrote:
>>From: David Marchand <mailto:david.march...@redhat.com>
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 6:39 AM
>>
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>>rte_intr_enable/rte_intr_disable configure the interrupt context on the
>>kernel side (either uio or vfio).
>>In VFIO case, calling it from the interrupt handlers triggers an unneeded
>>interrupt handlers reconfiguration.
>>During this reconfiguration window, the device can trigger interrupts which
>>are left unserviced.
>>
>>Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1654824
>>Fixes: 245aec289338 ("net/qede: fix legacy interrupt mode")
>>Fixes: 2ea6f76aff40 ("qede: add core driver")
>>Cc: mailto:sta...@dpdk.org
>>
>>Signed-off-by: David Marchand <mailto:david.march...@redhat.com>
>>---
>Change looks good, thanks.
>Acked-by: Rasesh Mody <mailto:rm...@marvell.com>

>Something still bothers me about the meaning of rte_intr_enable()...
>Let me write a mail to a little more people :-)

>For now, let's put this patch on hold.

Another question I have is, is it required to re-enable interrupt by PMD at the 
end of interrupt handling by calling rte_intr_enable()?
Does DPDK core / vfio/uio module take care of re-enabling the interrupt after 
the interrupt is handled?

Thanks,
Shahed

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