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In preparation for upcoming RDMA-capable hardware, add a client interface to the VF driver. This is a slightly-simplified version of the PF client interface, with the names changed to protect the innocent. Due to the nature of the VF<->PF interactions, the client interface sometimes needs to call back into itself to pass messages. Because of this, we can't use the coarse-grained locking like the PF's client interface uses. Instead, we handle all client interactions in a separate thread so the watchdog can still run and process virtual channel messages. Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Avinash Dayanand <avinash.dayanand@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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