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    can: dev: enable multi-queue for SocketCAN devices · 03870907
    Zhu Yi authored
    The existing SocketCAN implementation provides alloc_candev() to
    allocate a CAN device using a single Tx and Rx queue. This can lead to
    priority inversion in case the single Tx queue is already full with low
    priority messages and a high priority message needs to be sent while the
    bus is fully loaded with medium priority messages.
    
    This problem can be solved by using the existing multi-queue support of
    the network subsytem. The commit makes it possible to use multi-queue in
    the CAN subsystem in the same way it is used in the Ethernet subsystem
    by adding an alloc_candev_mqs() call and accompanying macros. With this
    support a CAN device can use multi-queue qdisc (e.g. mqprio) to avoid
    the aforementioned priority inversion.
    
    The exisiting functionality of alloc_candev() is the same as before.
    
    CAN devices need to have prioritized multiple hardware queues or are
    able to abort waiting for arbitration to make sensible use of
    multi-queues.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZhu Yi <yi.zhu5@cn.bosch.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Jonas <mark.jonas@de.bosch.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarHeiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
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