From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>,
ira.weiny@intel.com, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>,
Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] cxl/pci: Add DOE Auxiliary Devices
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 07:48:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211119064830.GA15425@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211117221536.GA1778765@bhelgaas>
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 04:15:36PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > Agreed though how it all gets tied together isn't totally clear
> > to me yet. The messy bit is interrupts given I don't think we have
> > a model for enabling those anywhere other than in individual PCI drivers.
>
> Ah. Yeah, that is a little messy. The only real precedent where the
> PCI core and a driver might need to coordinate on interrupts is the
> portdrv. So far we've pretended that bridges do not have
> device-specific functionality that might require interrupts. I don't
> think that's actually true, but we haven't integrated drivers for the
> tuning, performance monitoring, and similar features that bridges may
> have. Yet.
And portdrv really is conceptually part of the core PCI core, and
should eventually be fully integrated..
> In any case, I think the argument that DOE capabilities are not
> CXL-specific still holds.
Agreed.
> Oh, right, of course. A hint here that MSI/MSI-X depends on bus
> mastering would save me the trouble.
>
> I wonder if the infrastructure, e.g., something inside
> pci_alloc_irq_vectors_affinity() should do this for us. The
> connection is "obvious" but not mentioned in
> Documentation/PCI/msi-howto.rst and I'm not sure how callers that
> supply PCI_IRQ_ALL_TYPES would know whether they got a single MSI
> vector (which requires bus mastering) or an INTx vector (which does
> not).
As a minimum step we should document that this. That being said
I don't tink we can just make the interrupt API call pci_set_master
as there might be strange ordering requirements in the drivers.
> > > So we get an auxiliary device for every instance of a DOE
> > > capability? I think the commit log should mention something about
> > > how many are created (e.g., "one per DOE capability"), how they
> > > are named, whether they appear in sysfs, how drivers bind to them,
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > I assume there needs to be some coordination between possible
> > > multiple users of a DOE capability? How does that work?
> >
> > The DOE handling implementation makes everything synchronous - so if
> > multiple users each may have to wait on queueing their query /
> > responses exchanges.
> >
> > The fun of non OS software accessing these is still an open
> > question.
>
> Sounds like something that potentially could be wrapped up in a safe
> but slow interface that could be usable by others, including lspci?
I guess we have to. I think this interface is a nightmare. Why o why
does the PCI SGI keep doing these stupid things (see also VPDs).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-19 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-05 23:50 [PATCH 0/5] CXL: Read CDAT and DSMAS data from the device ira.weiny
2021-11-05 23:50 ` [PATCH 1/5] PCI: Add vendor ID for the PCI SIG ira.weiny
2021-11-17 21:50 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-11-05 23:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] PCI/DOE: Add Data Object Exchange Aux Driver ira.weiny
2021-11-08 12:15 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-10 5:45 ` Ira Weiny
2021-11-18 18:48 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-16 23:48 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-12-03 20:48 ` Dan Williams
2021-12-03 23:56 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-12-04 15:47 ` Dan Williams
2021-12-06 12:27 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-05 23:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] cxl/pci: Add DOE Auxiliary Devices ira.weiny
2021-11-08 13:09 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-11 1:31 ` Ira Weiny
2021-11-11 11:53 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-16 23:48 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-11-17 12:23 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-17 22:15 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-11-18 10:51 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-19 6:48 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-11-29 23:37 ` Dan Williams
2021-11-29 23:59 ` Dan Williams
2021-11-30 6:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-11-05 23:50 ` [PATCH 4/5] cxl/mem: Add CDAT table reading from DOE ira.weiny
2021-11-08 13:21 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-08 23:19 ` Ira Weiny
2021-11-08 15:02 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-08 22:25 ` Ira Weiny
2021-11-09 11:09 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-19 14:40 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-05 23:50 ` [PATCH 5/5] cxl/cdat: Parse out DSMAS data from CDAT table ira.weiny
2021-11-08 14:52 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-11 3:58 ` Ira Weiny
2021-11-11 11:58 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-18 17:02 ` Jonathan Cameron
2021-11-19 14:55 ` Jonathan Cameron
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