Re: [PATCH net-next v4 00/15] gve: AdminQ mode related refactors

On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM Harshitha Ramamurthy
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This series is preparing the driver for the addition of a new control
> plane mode(MailboxQ) by commonizing and reusing as much code as possible.
> MailboxQ is a new control plane infrastructure which uses mailbox queues.
> This is a new control plane to communicate with the device when the driver
> is running on bare-metal instances as well as newer versions of the device.
>
> This series contains 2 main changes to the gve driver's existing control
> plane(AdminQ):
> 1) refactor some initialization/teardown path methods to make it work for
>    both control planes.
> 2) add gve_ctrl_ops structure to the driver for various control plane
>    operations
>
> The refactors are mainly around the init, reset and recover paths so that
> functionalities could be moved into the control ops like 'set_num_queues',
> 'set_num_ntfy_blks' etc.
>
> This patch series only sets the control ops for AdminQ mode. This is
> intended as a preparation for adding MailboxQ mode in upcoming series
> which will add the new control plane infrastructure and then introduce
> the corresponding control ops for MailboxQ mode.
>
> The entire list of future patches can be found here for reference:
> https://github.com/hramamurthy12/linux/commits/gve-mailbox-queues/

Sashiko has spotted a few issues - will look through them and fix them in v5.

>
> Changes in v4:
> - Reduce code churn by placing new functions directly in gve_adminq.c, introducing final tab spacing
>   and using local variable (Przemek Kitszel)
> - Fix kdoc formatting and drop spurious management interrupt(patch 9)
> - Propagate release_db_resources naming change (patch 12)
> - Remove double logging in destroy queues path (patch 14)
> - v3: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Fix driver compatibility verification in the reset and recovery paths (patches 2, 8).
> - Mark gve_adminq_get_device_properties() with __maybe_unused ahead of its usage (patch 7).
> - Refine error handling and resource cleanup in reset, probe, and queue creation paths (patches 8, 9, 11, 14).
> - Keep IRQ doorbell allocation/release in control plane resource helpers (patch 12).
> - Minor fixes: fix TOCTOU issue for link speed, correct kdoc comments, and remove redundant teardown calls (patches 4, 11, 15).
> - v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Rebased against latest net-next to resolve apply failure for patch 5
> - Fixed a few typos in commit messages of patch 9 and 14
> - Fixed a kdoc warning in patch 9
> - v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/
> Harshitha Ramamurthy (9):
>   gve: don't pass in unused parameter to gve_adminq_free
>   gve: refactor initialization with helper functions
>   gve: add a few helper functions to set device properties
>   gve: add struct gve_device_info to hold device properties
>   gve: introduce control plane operations structure
>   gve: introduce ctrl ops to set vectors and Qs
>   gve: introduce gve_adminq_get_device_properties()
>   gve: refactor gve_init_priv for reset path
>   gve: add ctrl ops to for queue operations
>
> Joshua Washington (6):
>   gve: simplify reset logic
>   gve: add gve_ctrl_ops for gve initialization/teardown sequences
>   gve: split up notify block allocation and setup paths
>   gve: introduce new methods to handle IRQ doorbells
>   gve: setup and teardown management interrupts
>   gve: add link status/speed ctrl ops
>
>  drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve.h         |  89 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_adminq.c  | 437 ++++++--
>  drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_adminq.h  |  25 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_dqo.h     |   2 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_ethtool.c |   5 +-
>  .../net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_flow_rule.c   |  15 +-
>  drivers/net/ethernet/google/gve/gve_main.c    | 940 +++++++++---------
>  7 files changed, 957 insertions(+), 556 deletions(-)
>
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