Re: [PATCH 0/8] nic: thunderx: fix communication races betwen VF & PF

2019-02-06 Thread Vadim Lomovtsev
self-NACK here, some emails get's corrupted for some reasons, along with some typos found. sorry for inconvenience. Vadim On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 10:13:54AM +, Vadim Lomovtsev wrote: > The ThunderX CN88XX NIC Virtual Function driver uses mailbox interface > to communicate to physical functi

[PATCH 0/8] nic: thunderx: fix communication races betwen VF & PF

2019-02-06 Thread Vadim Lomovtsev
The ThunderX CN88XX NIC Virtual Function driver uses mailbox interface to communicate to physical function driver. Each of VF has it's own pair of mailbox registers to read from and write to. The mailbox registers has no protection from possible races, so it has to be implemented at software side.