From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 21/32] NTB/msi: Convert to msi_on_each_desc()
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 11:46:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4d4550a-022e-4574-3937-248518dae763@deltatee.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211201181406.GM4670@nvidia.com>
On 2021-12-01 11:14 a.m., 'Jason Gunthorpe' via linux-ntb wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 06:35:35PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 01 2021 at 09:00, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 01, 2021 at 11:16:47AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>>> Looking at the device slices as subdevices with their own struct device
>>>> makes a lot of sense from the conceptual level.
>>>
>>> Except IMS is not just for subdevices, it should be usable for any
>>> driver in any case as a general interrupt mechiansm, as you alluded to
>>> below about ethernet queues. ntb seems to be the current example of
>>> this need..
>>
>> But NTB is operating through an abstraction layer and is not a direct
>> PCIe device driver.
>
> I'm not sure exactly how NTB seems to be split between switchtec and
> the ntb code, but since the ntbd code seems to be doing MMIO touches,
> it feels like part of a PCIe driver?
Eh, sort of. NTB has lots of layers. At the top you'll find ntb_netdev
which is an network interface. Below that is ntb_transport() which is a
generic queue pair. Below that is the hardware driver itself (ie
switchtec) through the abstraction layer. The switchtec driver is split
in two: the main driver which just allows for information and
administration of the switch itself and switchtec_ntb which is the
module that provides the NTB abstractions to twiddle its registers.
ntb_transport() doesn't directly do MMIO touches (as it doesn't know
what the underlying hardware registers are). Except for the memory
windows which are usually setup to be a specific BAR (or parts of a
BAR). ntb_transport will do MMIO writes to those specific BAR address
which correspond to writing into buffers on the peer.
Logan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-01 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 184+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-27 1:22 [patch 00/32] genirq/msi, PCI/MSI: Spring cleaning - Part 2 Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 01/32] genirq/msi: Move descriptor list to struct msi_device_data Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 12:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 02/32] genirq/msi: Add mutex for MSI list protection Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 03/32] genirq/msi: Provide msi_domain_alloc/free_irqs_descs_locked() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 04/32] genirq/msi: Provide a set of advanced MSI accessors and iterators Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-28 1:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-28 19:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-29 9:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-29 14:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-29 14:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 05/32] genirq/msi: Provide msi_alloc_msi_desc() and a simple allocator Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 06/32] genirq/msi: Provide domain flags to allocate/free MSI descriptors automatically Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 07/32] genirq/msi: Count the allocated MSI descriptors Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 12:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-27 19:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 19:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-28 11:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-28 19:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 08/32] PCI/MSI: Protect MSI operations Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 09/32] PCI/MSI: Use msi_add_msi_desc() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 10/32] PCI/MSI: Let core code free MSI descriptors Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 11/32] PCI/MSI: Use msi_on_each_desc() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 12/32] x86/pci/xen: Use msi_for_each_desc() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 13/32] xen/pcifront: Rework MSI handling Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 14/32] s390/pci: Rework MSI descriptor walk Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-29 10:31 ` Niklas Schnelle
2021-11-29 13:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 15/32] powerpc/4xx/hsta: Rework MSI handling Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 16/32] powerpc/cell/axon_msi: Convert to msi_on_each_desc() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 17/32] powerpc/pasemi/msi: Convert to msi_on_each_dec() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 18/32] powerpc/fsl_msi: Use msi_for_each_desc() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 19/32] powerpc/mpic_u3msi: Use msi_for_each-desc() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:22 ` [patch 20/32] PCI: hv: Rework MSI handling Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 21/32] NTB/msi: Convert to msi_on_each_desc() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-29 18:21 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2021-11-29 20:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-29 22:27 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2021-11-29 22:50 ` Dave Jiang
2021-11-29 23:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-29 23:52 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2021-11-30 0:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-30 0:29 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-30 19:21 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2021-11-30 19:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-30 20:14 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2021-11-30 20:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-11-30 21:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 0:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-01 10:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 13:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-01 17:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 18:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-01 18:46 ` Logan Gunthorpe [this message]
2021-12-01 20:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-02 0:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-02 13:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-02 14:23 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-02 14:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-02 19:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-02 20:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-02 22:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-03 0:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-03 15:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-03 16:41 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-04 14:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-05 14:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-06 14:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-06 15:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-06 17:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-06 20:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-06 21:06 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-06 22:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-06 14:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-06 15:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-09 6:26 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 9:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-09 12:17 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 15:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-10 7:37 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 5:41 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 5:47 ` Jason Wang
2021-12-01 16:28 ` Dave Jiang
2021-12-01 18:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 18:47 ` Dave Jiang
2021-12-01 20:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 21:21 ` Dave Jiang
2021-12-01 21:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 21:49 ` Dave Jiang
2021-12-01 22:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 22:53 ` Dave Jiang
2021-12-01 23:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-09 5:23 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 8:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-09 12:31 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 16:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-09 20:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-09 20:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-09 22:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-10 0:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-10 7:29 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-10 12:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-11 8:06 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-10 12:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-10 19:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-11 7:44 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-11 13:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-12 1:56 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-12 20:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-12 23:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-13 7:50 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-15 9:24 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-20 14:09 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-09-21 7:57 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-21 12:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-09-22 5:11 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-22 12:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-09-22 22:42 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-23 13:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-11 7:52 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-12 0:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-12 2:14 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-12 20:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-12 23:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-10 7:36 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-10 12:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-12 6:44 ` Mika Penttilä
2021-12-12 23:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-01 14:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 15:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-01 18:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 18:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-01 20:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2022-12-05 18:25 ` [tip: irq/core] PCI/MSI: Provide post-enable dynamic allocation interfaces for MSI-X tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2022-12-05 21:41 ` tip-bot2 for Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 22/32] soc: ti: ti_sci_inta_msi: Rework MSI descriptor allocation Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 23/32] soc: ti: ti_sci_inta_msi: Remove ti_sci_inta_msi_domain_free_irqs() Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 24/32] bus: fsl-mc-msi: Simplify MSI descriptor handling Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 25/32] platform-msi: Let core code handle MSI descriptors Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 26/32] platform-msi: Simplify platform device MSI code Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 27/32] genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 28/32] genirq/msi: Convert to new functions Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 29/32] genirq/msi: Mop up old interfaces Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 30/32] genirq/msi: Add abuse prevention comment to msi header Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 31/32] genirq/msi: Simplify sysfs handling Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 12:32 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-27 19:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-28 11:07 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-28 19:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 32/32] genirq/msi: Convert storage to xarray Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 1:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-11-27 12:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-27 1:23 ` [patch 00/32] genirq/msi, PCI/MSI: Spring cleaning - Part 2 Thomas Gleixner
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