Re: [PATCH] irqchip/armada-370-xp: Enable MSI affinity configuration

[Nathan Rossi]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2022 at 02:21, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 10:58:23PM +1000, Nathan Rossi wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 22:19, Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > If you have a PCIe device that you can use with the 370 rd.
> > >
> > > Sorry, nothing on its bus.
> > >
> > > The only device i have which might make sense testing is a
> > > WRT1900ac. That has an Armada XP dual core. I could try building a UP
> > > kernel for it, but i guess you have tried that already with your
> > > machine in order to test a UP setup?
> >
> > I have tested with SMP=n on a Armada 385 without any issues. So no
> > need to do that on the Armada XP.
> >
> > There is still value in testing on the WRT1900ac device since so far I
> > have only tested on a Armada 385. The Armada XP does have
> > registers/etc. of the MPIC very similar to the 370, compared to the
> > 385 having some significant differences. So if it is not too
> > problematic to test on (it appears to have its wifi attached via
> > PCIe?) please do.
>
> Hi Nathan
>
> Turns out the WiFi drivers are in a sorry state. There is no mainline
> driver. There is an OpenWRT driver, but it has not been updated for a
> few years, tries to use get_fs() set_fs() pci_map_single() etc.
>
> I've mostly used this platform for Ethernet switch development, so
> i've never tried the WiFi before. I had no idea it was so broken...
>
> So sorry, i cannot test this.

Thanks for giving it a try.

I managed to source an existing one of our products that uses an
Armada 370 with a PCIe device attached. Took me a bit to get a recent
kernel booting on it, however I was able to confirm that this MSI
affinity change works correctly on the 370 SoC (with and without
CONFIG_SMP).

Regards,
Nathan