On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 10:58:47 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > Polling for control messages every 100ms? Sure. > > > > You say "valid in netdev" so perhaps you can educate us where/why it > > would not be? > > It doesn't seem right to me that idle device burns CPU cycles, while it > supports interrupts. If it needs "listen to FW", it will be much nicer to > install interrupts immediately and don't wait for netdev. No doubt, if there is an alternative we can push for it to be implemented. I guess this being yet another "IPU" there could be possible workarounds in FW? As always with IPUs - hard to tell :/ If there is no alternative - it is what it is. It's up to customers to buy good HW. That said, looking at what this set does - how are the VFs configured? That's the showstopper for the series in my mind.
