From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To: "kraxel@redhat.com" <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Tina" <tina.zhang@intel.com>,
"Lu, Kechen" <kechen.lu@intel.com>,
"intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org"
<intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"zhenyuw@linux.intel.com" <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>,
"Lv, Zhiyuan" <zhiyuan.lv@intel.com>,
"Wang, Zhi A" <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>,
"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
"Yuan, Hang" <hang.yuan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 2/6] vfio: Introduce vGPU display irq type
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 08:38:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190802083859.0fb0f05e@x1.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190802133531.4zwsjltvjisq4sfz@sirius.home.kraxel.org>
On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 15:35:31 +0200
"kraxel@redhat.com" <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > > > Couldn't you expose this as another capability within the IRQ_INFO return
> > > > data? If you were to define it as a macro, I assume that means it would be
> > > > hard coded, in which case this probably becomes an Intel specific IRQ, rather
> > > > than what appears to be framed as a generic graphics IRQ extension. A new
> > > > capability could instead allow the vendor to specify their own value, where
> > > > we could define how userspace should interpret and make use of this value.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > Good suggestion. Currently, vfio_irq_info is used to save one irq
> > > info. What we need here is to use it to save several events info.
> > > Maybe we could figure out a general layout of this capability so that
> > > it can be leveraged by others, not only for display irq/events.
> >
> > You could also expose a device specific IRQ with count > 1 (ie. similar
> > to MSI/X) and avoid munging the eventfd value, which is not something
> > we do elsewhere, at least in vfio. Thanks,
>
> Well, the basic idea is to use the eventfd value to signal the kind of
> changes which did happen, simliar to IRQ status register bits.
>
> So, when the guest changes the primary plane, the mdev driver notes
> this. Same with the cursor plane. On vblank (when the guests update
> is actually applied) the mdev driver wakes the eventfd and uses eventfd
> value to signal whenever primary plane or cursor plane or both did
> change.
>
> Then userspace knows which planes need an update without an extra
> VFIO_DEVICE_QUERY_GFX_PLANE roundtrip to the kernel.
>
> Alternatively we could have one eventfd for each change type. But given
> that these changes are typically applied at the same time (vblank) we
> would have multiple eventfds being signaled at the same time. Which
> doesn't look ideal to me ...
Good point, looking at the bits in the eventfd value seems better than
a flood of concurrent interrupts. Thanks,
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-02 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-18 15:56 [RFC PATCH v4 0/6] Deliver vGPU display refresh event to userspace Kechen Lu
2019-07-18 15:56 ` [RFC PATCH v4 1/6] vfio: Define device specific irq type capability Kechen Lu
2019-07-19 6:05 ` Zhenyu Wang
2019-07-19 9:02 ` Lu, Kechen
2019-07-19 9:59 ` Zhenyu Wang
2019-07-18 15:56 ` [RFC PATCH v4 2/6] vfio: Introduce vGPU display irq type Kechen Lu
2019-07-19 16:25 ` Alex Williamson
2019-07-22 5:28 ` Lu, Kechen
2019-07-22 19:41 ` Alex Williamson
2019-07-23 1:08 ` Zhang, Tina
2019-07-23 1:18 ` Alex Williamson
2019-07-23 1:54 ` Zhang, Tina
2019-08-02 13:35 ` kraxel
2019-08-02 14:38 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2019-07-18 15:56 ` [RFC PATCH v4 3/6] drm/i915/gvt: Register vGPU display event irq Kechen Lu
2019-07-18 15:56 ` [RFC PATCH v4 4/6] drm/i915/gvt: Deliver vGPU refresh event to userspace Kechen Lu
2019-07-19 6:24 ` Zhenyu Wang
2019-07-19 9:28 ` Lu, Kechen
2019-07-18 15:56 ` [RFC PATCH v4 5/6] drm/i915/gvt: Deliver async primary plane page flip events at vblank Kechen Lu
2019-07-18 15:56 ` [RFC PATCH v4 6/6] drm/i915/gvt: Add cursor plane reg update trap emulation handler Kechen Lu
2019-07-19 6:34 ` Zhenyu Wang
2019-07-19 9:33 ` Lu, Kechen
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