From: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
aik@ozlabs.ru, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 3/6] powerpc/powernv: use one M64 BAR in Single PE mode for one VF BAR
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:48:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150807014818.GC8292@richard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150806100701.GA5988@gwshan>
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 08:07:01PM +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 05:36:02PM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>>On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 03:20:25PM +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
>>>On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 09:25:00AM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
>>>>In current implementation, when VF BAR is bigger than 64MB, it uses 4 M64
>>>>BAR in Single PE mode to cover the number of VFs required to be enabled.
>>>>By doing so, several VFs would be in one VF Group and leads to interference
>>>>between VFs in the same group.
>>>>
>>>>This patch changes the design by using one M64 BAR in Single PE mode for
>>>>one VF BAR. This gives absolute isolation for VFs.
>>>>
>>>>Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>>---
>>>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h | 5 +-
>>>> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c | 180 ++++++++++++-----------------
>>>> 2 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>>diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h
>>>>index 712add5..8aeba4c 100644
>>>>--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h
>>>>+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pci-bridge.h
>>>>@@ -214,10 +214,9 @@ struct pci_dn {
>>>> u16 vfs_expanded; /* number of VFs IOV BAR expanded */
>>>> u16 num_vfs; /* number of VFs enabled*/
>>>> int offset; /* PE# for the first VF PE */
>>>>-#define M64_PER_IOV 4
>>>>- int m64_per_iov;
>>>>+ bool m64_single_mode; /* Use M64 BAR in Single Mode */
>>>> #define IODA_INVALID_M64 (-1)
>>>>- int m64_wins[PCI_SRIOV_NUM_BARS][M64_PER_IOV];
>>>>+ int (*m64_map)[PCI_SRIOV_NUM_BARS];
>>>
>>>It can be explicit? For example:
>>>
>>> int *m64_map;
>>>
>>> /* Initialization */
>>> size_t size = sizeof(*pdn->m64_map) * PCI_SRIOV_NUM_BARS * num_of_max_VFs;
>>> pdn->m64_map = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
>>> for (i = 0; i < PCI_SRIOV_NUM_BARS; i++)
>>> for (j = 0; j < num_of_max_VFs; j++)
>>> pdn->m64_map[i * PCI_SRIOV_NUM_BARS + j] = PNV_INVALID_M64;
>>>
>>> /* Destroy */
>>> int step = 1;
>>>
>>> if (!pdn->m64_single_mode)
>>> step = phb->ioda.total_pe;
>>> for (i = 0; i < PCI_SRIOV_NUM_BARS * num_of_max_VFs; i += step)
>>> if (pdn->m64_map[i] == PNV_INVALID_M64)
>>> continue;
>>>
>>> /* Unmap the window */
>>>
>>
>>The m64_map is a pointer to an array with 6 elements, which represents the 6
>>M64 BAR index for the 6 VF BARs.
>>
>> When we use Shared Mode, one array is allocated. The six elements
>> represents the six M64 BAR(at most) used to map the whole IOV BAR.
>>
>> When we use Single Mode, num_vfs array is allocate. Each array represents
>> the map between one VF's BAR and M64 BAR index.
>>
>>During the map and un-map, M64 BAR is assigned one by one in VF BAR's order.
>>So I think the code is explicit.
>>
>>In your code, you allocate a big one dimension array to hold the M64 BAR
>>index. It works, while I don't think this is more explicit than original code.
>>
>
>When M64 is in Single Mode, array with (num_vfs * 6) entries is allocated
>because every VF BAR (6 at most) will have one corresponding PHB M64 BAR.
>Anything I missed?
>
>The point in my code is you needn't worry about the mode (single vs shared)
>As I said, not too much memory wasted. However, it's up to you.
>
If we don't want to save some memory, how about just define them static
instead of dynamically allocate?
>I'm not fan of "int (*m64_map)[PCI_SRIOV_NUM_BARS]". Instead, you can replace
>it with "int *m64_map" and calculate its size using following formula:
>
> sizeof(*pdn->m64_map) * PCI_SRIOV_NUM_BARS;
>
> sizeof(*pdn->m64_map) * PCI_SRIOV_NUM_BARS * num_vfs;
>
>>--
>>Richard Yang
>>Help you, Help me
--
Richard Yang
Help you, Help me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-07 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-29 7:22 [PATCH] powerpc/powernv: use one M64 BAR in Single PE mode for one VF BAR Wei Yang
2015-07-30 1:15 ` Gavin Shan
2015-07-30 5:43 ` Wei Yang
2015-07-31 0:13 ` Gavin Shan
2015-07-31 2:01 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-05 1:24 ` [PATCH V2 0/6] Redesign SR-IOV on PowerNV Wei Yang
2015-08-05 1:24 ` [PATCH V2 1/6] powerpc/powernv: don't enable SRIOV when VF BAR contains non M64 BAR Wei Yang
2015-08-06 4:35 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-06 6:10 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-08-06 6:57 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-06 7:47 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-08-06 11:07 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-06 14:13 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-07 1:24 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-08-06 14:10 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-07 1:20 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-07 2:24 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-07 3:50 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-07 7:14 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-08-10 1:40 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-05 1:24 ` [PATCH V2 2/6] powerpc/powernv: simplify the calculation of iov resource Wei Yang
2015-08-06 4:51 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-06 9:00 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-08-06 9:41 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-06 10:15 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-08-07 1:36 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-06 13:49 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-07 1:08 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-05 1:25 ` [PATCH V2 3/6] powerpc/powernv: use one M64 BAR in Single PE mode for one VF BAR Wei Yang
2015-08-06 5:20 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-06 9:36 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-06 10:07 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-07 1:48 ` Wei Yang [this message]
2015-08-07 8:13 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-08-06 10:04 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-08-07 2:01 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-07 8:59 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-08-10 1:48 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-05 1:25 ` [PATCH V2 4/6] powerpc/powernv: replace the hard coded boundary with gate Wei Yang
2015-08-06 5:26 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-07 9:11 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-08-05 1:25 ` [PATCH V2 5/6] powerpc/powernv: boundary the total vf bar size instead of the individual one Wei Yang
2015-08-06 5:28 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-06 14:03 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-07 1:23 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-07 2:25 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-05 1:25 ` [PATCH V2 6/6] powerpc/powernv: allocate discrete PE# when using M64 BAR in Single PE mode Wei Yang
2015-08-06 5:36 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-06 13:41 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-07 1:36 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-07 2:33 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-07 3:43 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-07 5:44 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-07 5:54 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-07 6:25 ` Wei Yang
2015-08-07 10:00 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
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