Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756943Ab3EVXpk (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 19:45:40 -0400 Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:53057 "EHLO webmail.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756027Ab3EVXpi (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 May 2013 19:45:38 -0400 Message-ID: <1369266331.2670.40.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] PCI: Make sure VF's driver get attached after PF's From: Ben Hutchings To: Or Gerlitz CC: Alexander Duyck , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Don Dutile , Alexander Duyck , Yinghai Lu , "Bjorn Helgaas" , Gu Zheng , "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , NetDev , Jack Morgenstein Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 00:45:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1368498506-25857-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1368498506-25857-7-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <51925FB0.4080504@intel.com> <5192946F.1050700@intel.com> <5192AEF4.1070905@intel.com> <519BE778.9040800@redhat.com> <20130521214912.GA21713@redhat.com> <519BEEA4.2030804@gmail.com> <20130521221117.GB803@redhat.com> <519BF594.1020607@gmail.com> Organization: Solarflare Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4 (3.6.4-3.fc18) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.17.20.137] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-10.0.0.1412-7.000.1014-19884.005 X-TM-AS-Result: No--4.048800-0.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: Yes X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 22 On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 23:16 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: [...] > all in all, we will look into returning -EPROBE_DEFER from the VF > when they identify the problematic situation -- so for how much time > this is deferred? or if this isn't time based what the logical > condition which once met the VF probe is attempted again? My reading is that it will be retried as soon as the PF probe returns. But I've never tried using this feature myself. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/