net: thunderx: replace global nicvf_rx_mode_wq work queue for all VFs to private for each of them.

Having one work queue for receive mode configuration ndo_set_rx_mode()
call for all VFs results in making each of them wait till the
set_rx_mode() call completes for another VF if any of close, set
receive mode and change flags calls being already invoked. Potentially
this could cause device state change before appropriate call of receive
mode configuration completes, so the call itself became meaningless,
corrupt data or break configuration sequence.

We don't need any delays in NIC VF configuration sequence so having delayed
work call with 0 delay has no sense.

This commit is to implement one work queue for each NIC VF for set_rx_mode
task and to let them work independently and replacing delayed_work
with work_struct.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Lomovtsev <vlomovtsev@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h
index f4d81765221e..376a96bce33f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ struct xcast_addr_list {
 };
 
 struct nicvf_work {
-	struct delayed_work    work;
+	struct work_struct     work;
 	u8                     mode;
 	struct xcast_addr_list *mc;
 };
@@ -327,6 +327,8 @@ struct nicvf {
 	struct nicvf_work       rx_mode_work;
 	/* spinlock to protect workqueue arguments from concurrent access */
 	spinlock_t              rx_mode_wq_lock;
+	/* workqueue for handling kernel ndo_set_rx_mode() calls */
+	struct workqueue_struct *nicvf_rx_mode_wq;
 
 	/* PTP timestamp */
 	struct cavium_ptp	*ptp_clock;