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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, x86@kernel.org
Cc: iommu <iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] x86/irq: Limit IOAPIC and MSI domains' affinity without IR
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 17:25:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d01u3vo6.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f73340328712558c3329e11b75e32c364d01edf6.camel@infradead.org>

On Wed, Oct 07 2020 at 16:05, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 16:05 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> The top most MSI irq chip does not even have a compose function, neither
>> for the remap nor for the vector case. The composition is done by the
>> parent domain from the data which the parent domain constructed. Same
>> for the IO/APIC just less clearly separated.
>> 
>> The top most chip just takes what the underlying domain constructed and
>> writes it to the message store, because that's what the top most chip
>> controls. It does not control the content.
>
> Sure, whatever. The way we arrange the IRQ domain hierarchy in x86
> Linux doesn't really match my understanding of the real hardware, or
> how qemu emulates it either. But it is at least internally self-
> consistent, and in this model it probably does make some sense to claim
> the 8-bit limit on x86_vector_domain itself, and *remove* that limit in
> the remapping irqdomain.

It's clearly how the hardware works. MSI has a message store of some
sorts and if the entry is enabled then the MSI chip (in PCI or
elsewhere) will send exactly the message which is in that message
store. It knows absolutely nothing about what the message means and how
it is composed. The only things which MSI knows about is whether the
message address is 64bit wide or not and whether the entries are
maskable or not and how many entries it can store.

Software allocates a message target at the underlying irq domain (vector
or remap) and that underlying irq domain defines the properties.

If qemu emulates it differently then it's qemu's problem, but that does
not make it in anyway something which influences the irq domain
abstractions which are correctly modeled after how the hardware works.

> Not really the important part to deal with right now, either way.

Oh yes it is. We define that upfront and not after the fact.

Thanks,

        tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-07 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-05 15:28 [PATCH 0/13] Fix per-domain IRQ affinity, allow >255 CPUs on x86 without IRQ remapping David Woodhouse
2020-10-05 15:28 ` [PATCH 01/13] x86/apic: Use x2apic in guest kernels even with unusable CPUs David Woodhouse
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 02/13] x86/msi: Only use high bits of MSI address for DMAR unit David Woodhouse
2020-10-06 20:45     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 03/13] x86/ioapic: Handle Extended Destination ID field in RTE David Woodhouse
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 04/13] x86/apic: Support 15 bits of APIC ID in IOAPIC/MSI where available David Woodhouse
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 05/13] genirq: Prepare for default affinity to be passed to __irq_alloc_descs() David Woodhouse
2020-10-06 21:01     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-06 21:07       ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 06/13] genirq: Add default_affinity argument " David Woodhouse
2020-10-06 21:06     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 07/13] irqdomain: Add max_affinity argument to irq_domain_alloc_descs() David Woodhouse
2020-10-06 21:26     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-07  7:19       ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-07 13:37         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-07 14:10           ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-07 15:57             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-07 16:11               ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-07 20:53                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-08  7:21               ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-08  9:34                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-08 11:10                   ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-08 12:40                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-09  7:54                       ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 08/13] genirq: Add irq_domain_set_affinity() David Woodhouse
2020-10-06 21:32     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-07  7:22       ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 09/13] x86/irq: Add x86_non_ir_cpumask David Woodhouse
2020-10-06 21:42     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-07  7:25       ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 10/13] x86/irq: Limit IOAPIC and MSI domains' affinity without IR David Woodhouse
2020-10-06 21:54     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-07  7:48       ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-07 12:59         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-07 13:08           ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-07 14:05             ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-07 14:23               ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-07 16:02                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-07 16:15                   ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-07 15:05               ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-07 15:25                 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2020-10-07 15:46                   ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-07 17:23                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-07 17:34                       ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 11/13] x86/smp: Allow more than 255 CPUs even without interrupt remapping David Woodhouse
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 12/13] iommu/irq_remapping: Kill most of hyperv-iommu.c now it's redundant David Woodhouse
2020-10-05 15:28   ` [PATCH 13/13] x86/kvm: Add KVM_FEATURE_MSI_EXT_DEST_ID David Woodhouse
2020-10-07  8:14     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-07  8:59       ` David Woodhouse
2020-10-07 11:15         ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-10-07 12:04           ` David Woodhouse

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