From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>, Marc Zygnier <maz@kernel.org>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, Megha Dey <megha.dey@intel.com>,
Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
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Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>,
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Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/22] genirq/msi, PCI/MSI: Spring cleaning - Part 1
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 12:15:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b96282e-aa7e-f864-a4fe-a1211605b0d3@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211126222700.862407977@linutronix.de>
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On 27.11.21 02:18, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The [PCI] MSI code has gained quite some warts over time. A recent
> discussion unearthed a shortcoming: the lack of support for expanding
> PCI/MSI-X vectors after initialization of MSI-X.
>
> PCI/MSI-X has no requirement to setup all vectors when MSI-X is enabled in
> the device. The non-used vectors have just to be masked in the vector
> table. For PCI/MSI this is not possible because the number of vectors
> cannot be changed after initialization.
>
> The PCI/MSI code, but also the core MSI irq domain code are built around
> the assumption that all required vectors are installed at initialization
> time and freed when the device is shut down by the driver.
>
> Supporting dynamic expansion at least for MSI-X is important for VFIO so
> that the host side interrupts for passthrough devices can be installed on
> demand.
>
> This is the first part of a large (total 101 patches) series which
> refactors the [PCI]MSI infrastructure to make runtime expansion of MSI-X
> vectors possible. The last part (10 patches) provide this functionality.
>
> The first part is mostly a cleanup which consolidates code, moves the PCI
> MSI code into a separate directory and splits it up into several parts.
>
> No functional change intended except for patch 2/N which changes the
> behaviour of pci_get_vector()/affinity() to get rid of the assumption that
> the provided index is the "index" into the descriptor list instead of using
> it as the actual MSI[X] index as seen by the hardware. This would break
> users of sparse allocated MSI-X entries, but non of them use these
> functions.
>
> This series is based on 5.16-rc2 and also available via git:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel.git msi-v1-part-1
Tested with Xen (PV dom0, PV guest, PVH guest, HVM guest).
You can add my:
Tested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Juergen
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-27 1:18 [patch 00/22] genirq/msi, PCI/MSI: Spring cleaning - Part 1 Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 01/22] powerpc/4xx: Remove MSI support which never worked Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 02/22] PCI/MSI: Fix pci_irq_vector()/pci_irq_get_attinity() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 03/22] genirq/msi: Guard sysfs code Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 04/22] genirq/msi: Remove unused domain callbacks Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 05/22] genirq/msi: Fixup includes Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-29 7:33 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-11-29 21:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-30 21:48 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-11-30 22:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-30 22:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 7:14 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-12-01 10:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 06/22] PCI/MSI: Make pci_msi_domain_write_msg() static Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 07/22] PCI/MSI: Remove msi_desc_to_pci_sysdata() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 08/22] PCI/sysfs: Use pci_irq_vector() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 09/22] MIPS: Octeon: Use arch_setup_msi_irq() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-29 10:21 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 10/22] genirq/msi, treewide: Use a named struct for PCI/MSI attributes Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-29 9:29 ` Kalle Valo
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 11/22] x86/hyperv: Refactor hv_msi_domain_free_irqs() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-02 14:36 ` Wei Liu
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 12/22] PCI/MSI: Make arch_restore_msi_irqs() less horrible Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 13/22] PCI/MSI: Cleanup include zoo Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 14/22] PCI/MSI: Make msix_update_entries() smarter Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` [patch 16/22] PCI/MSI: Split out CONFIG_PCI_MSI independent part Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` [patch 18/22] PCI/MSI: Split out irqdomain code Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` [patch 19/22] PCI/MSI: Sanitize MSIX table map handling Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` [patch 21/22] genirq/msi: Handle PCI/MSI allocation fail in core code Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` [patch 22/22] PCI/MSI: Move descriptor counting on allocation fail to the legacy code Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` [patch 00/22] genirq/msi, PCI/MSI: Spring cleaning - Part 1 Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` [patch 15/22] PCI/MSI: Move code into a separate directory Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:18 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` [patch 17/22] PCI/MSI: Split out !IRQDOMAIN code Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-29 7:47 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-11-29 7:51 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-11-27 1:19 ` [patch 20/22] PCI/MSI: Make pci_msi_domain_check_cap() static Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-28 0:08 ` [patch 00/22] genirq/msi, PCI/MSI: Spring cleaning - Part 1 Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-28 11:15 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2021-11-29 9:52 ` Cédric Le Goater
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