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qed: Learn resources from management firmware
authorTomer Tayar <Tomer.Tayar@cavium.com>
Mon, 31 Oct 2016 05:14:27 +0000 (07:14 +0200)
committerChuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>
Mon, 6 Mar 2017 05:00:09 +0000 (21:00 -0800)
commit19fa096523b8e076847d67ed6b74795102c92309
treecae2e44092340d547cab84cbce11d498c469f286
parent8f3835bd77745d5e1e8619c3dd11e63749f9553e
qed: Learn resources from management firmware

Orabug: 25477939

Currently, each interfaces assumes it receives an equal portion
of HW/FW resources, but this is wasteful - different partitions
[and specifically, parititions exposing different protocol support]
might require different resources.

Implement a new resource learning scheme where the information is
received directly from the management firmware [which has knowledge
of all of the functions and can serve as arbiter].

Signed-off-by: Tomer Tayar <Tomer.Tayar@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 2edbff8dcb5da324fd4c4fe953629e4f6ca73c99)
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_hsi.h
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed.h
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_dev.c
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_hsi.h
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_l2.c
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_mcp.c
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_mcp.h
include/linux/qed/qed_eth_if.h