From: "Dey, Megha" <megha.dey@linux.intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
vkoul@kernel.org, maz@kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com,
rafael@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
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x86@kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] Add VFIO mediated device support and IMS support for the idxd driver.
Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 15:32:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30dadd7a-bac2-d658-c2e4-77592de6118d@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200423194447.GF13640@mellanox.com>
On 4/23/2020 12:44 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>>> The mdev utilizes Interrupt Message Store or IMS[3] instead of MSIX for
>>>> interrupts for the guest. This preserves MSIX for host usages and also allows a
>>>> significantly larger number of interrupt vectors for guest usage.
>>>
>>> I never did get a reply to my earlier remarks on the IMS patches.
>>>
>>> The concept of a device specific addr/data table format for MSI is not
>>> Intel specific. This should be general code. We have a device that can
>>> use this kind of kernel capability today.
>>
>> I am sorry if I did not address your comments earlier.
>
> It appears noboy from Intel bothered to answer anyone else on that RFC
> thread:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1568338328-22458-1-git-send-email-megha.dey@linux.intel.com/
>
> However, it seems kind of moot as I see now that this verion of IMS
> bears almost no resemblance to the original RFC.
hmm yeah, we changed most of the code after getting a lot of feedback
from you and folks at plumbers. But yes, I should have replied to all
the feedback, lesson learnt :)
>
> That said, the similiarity to platform-msi was striking, does this new
> version harmonize with that?
yes!
>
>> The present IMS code is quite generic, most of the code is in the drivers/
>> folder. We basically introduce 2 APIS: allocate and free IMS interrupts and
>> a IMS IRQ domain to allocate these interrupts from. These APIs are
>> architecture agnostic.
>>
>> We also introduce a new IMS IRQ domain which is architecture specific. This
>> is because IMS generates interrupts only in the remappable format, hence
>> interrupt remapping should be enabled for IMS. Currently, the interrupt
>> remapping code is only available for Intel and AMD and I don’t see anything
>> for ARM.
>
> I don't understand these remarks though - IMS is simply the mapping of
> a MemWr addr/data pair to a Linux IRQ number? Why does this intersect
> with remapping?
>
From your comments so far, I think your requirement is a subset of what
IMS is trying to do.
What you want:
have a dynamic means of allocating platform-msi interrupts
On top of this IMS has a requirement that all of the interrupts should
be remapped.
So we can have tiered code: generic dynamic platform-msi infrastructure
and add the IMS specific bits (Intel specific) on top of this.
The generic code will have no reference to IMS.
> AFAIK, any platform that supports MSI today should have the inherent
> HW capability to support IMS.
>
>> Also, could you give more details on the device that could use IMS? Do you
>> have some driver code already? We could then see if and how the current IMS
>> code could be made more generic.
>
> We have several devices of interest, our NICs have very flexible PCI,
> so it is no problem to take the MemWR addr/data from someplace other
> than the MSI tables.
>
> For this we want to have some way to allocate Linux IRQs dynamically
> and get a addr/data pair to trigger them.
>
> Our NIC devices are also linked to our ARM SOC family, so I'd expect
> our ARM's to also be able to provide these APIs as the platform.
cool, so I will hope that you can test out the generic APIs from the ARM
side!
>
> Jason
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-01 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-21 23:33 [PATCH RFC 00/15] Add VFIO mediated device support and IMS support for the idxd driver Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:33 ` [PATCH RFC 01/15] drivers/base: Introduce platform_msi_ops Dave Jiang
2020-04-26 7:01 ` Greg KH
2020-04-27 21:38 ` Dave Jiang
2020-04-28 7:34 ` Greg KH
2020-04-21 23:33 ` [PATCH RFC 02/15] drivers/base: Introduce a new platform-msi list Dave Jiang
2020-04-25 21:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-04 0:08 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 03/15] drivers/base: Allocate/free platform-msi interrupts by group Dave Jiang
2020-04-25 21:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-04 0:08 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 04/15] drivers/base: Add support for a new IMS irq domain Dave Jiang
2020-04-23 20:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-01 22:30 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-03 22:40 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-04 0:25 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-04 12:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-06 10:27 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-25 21:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-04 0:11 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 05/15] ims-msi: Add mask/unmask routines Dave Jiang
2020-04-25 21:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-04 0:16 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 06/15] ims-msi: Enable IMS interrupts Dave Jiang
2020-04-25 22:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-04 0:17 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 07/15] Documentation: Interrupt Message store Dave Jiang
2020-04-23 20:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-01 22:32 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-03 22:41 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 08/15] vfio/mdev: Add a member for iommu domain in mdev_device Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 09/15] vfio/type1: Save domain when attach domain to mdev Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 10/15] dmaengine: idxd: add config support for readonly devices Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 11/15] dmaengine: idxd: add IMS support in base driver Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:35 ` [PATCH RFC 12/15] dmaengine: idxd: add device support functions in prep for mdev Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:35 ` [PATCH RFC 13/15] dmaengine: idxd: add support for VFIO mediated device Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:35 ` [PATCH RFC 14/15] dmaengine: idxd: add error notification from host driver to " Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:35 ` [PATCH RFC 15/15] dmaengine: idxd: add ABI documentation for mediated device support Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:54 ` [PATCH RFC 00/15] Add VFIO mediated device support and IMS support for the idxd driver Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-22 0:53 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-22 11:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-22 21:14 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-04-23 19:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-24 3:27 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-24 12:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-24 16:25 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-24 18:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-26 5:18 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-26 19:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 3:43 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-27 11:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 13:19 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-27 13:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 14:18 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-27 14:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 15:41 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-27 16:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 16:25 ` Dave Jiang
2020-04-27 21:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-29 9:42 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-05-08 20:47 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-05-08 23:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-08 23:52 ` Dave Jiang
2020-05-09 0:09 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-05-09 12:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-13 2:29 ` Jason Wang
2020-05-13 8:30 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-05-13 12:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 12:13 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-27 12:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-22 21:24 ` Dan Williams
2020-04-23 19:17 ` Dan Williams
2020-04-23 19:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-01 22:31 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-03 22:32 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-23 19:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-01 22:31 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-03 22:31 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-04 0:20 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-22 23:04 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-23 19:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-01 22:32 ` Dey, Megha [this message]
2020-04-24 6:31 ` Jason Wang
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