From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Cc: "Alexey Kardashevskiy" <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Riku Voipio" <riku.voipio@iki.fi>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Laurent Vivier" <laurent@vivier.eu>,
"Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, clg@kaod.org,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
philmd@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 19/19] spapr: Work around spurious warnings from vfio INTx initialization
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:02:39 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191010020239.GD28552@umbus.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191009191639.4055f811@bahia.lan>
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 07:16:39PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 19:52:59 +1100
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:37:38AM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2019 17:08:18 +1100
> > > David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Traditional PCI INTx for vfio devices can only perform well if using
> > > > an in-kernel irqchip. Therefore, vfio_intx_update() issues a warning
> > > > if an in kernel irqchip is not available.
> > >
> > > Can you elaborate on what doesn't "perform well" without an
> > > in-kernel irqchip ?
> >
> > Not really, no, but Alex Williamson tells me it is soo.
> >
> > > Is it a matter of performance or is it
> > > actually broken or something else ?
> >
> > I believe it's a matter of performance, but such a big one that it
> > makes using it without kernel irqchip infeasible in many cases.
> >
> > > What is the impact on -machine accel=kvm,kernel-irqchip=off which
> > > always spit this warning ?
> >
> > It should still spit that warning.
> >
>
> Yeah of course it does, but it is expected that we cannot setup
> the irqfd since we deliberately don't have an in-kernel irqchip,
> isn't it ? Why spit a warning in this case ? Or is it just a not
> very user friendly way of saying "you will have poor performance
> if the VFIO device uses PCI INTx" ?
The last thing, AIUI.
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-09 6:07 [PATCH v4 00/19] spapr: IRQ subsystem cleanup David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 01/19] xive: Make some device types not user creatable David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 02/19] xics: " David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 03/19] target/ppc: Fix for optimized vsl/vsr instructions David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 04/19] spapr, xics, xive: Introduce SpaprInterruptController QOM interface David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 05/19] spapr, xics, xive: Move cpu_intc_create from SpaprIrq to SpaprInterruptController David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 06/19] spapr, xics, xive: Move irq claim and free " David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 07/19] spapr: Formalize notion of active interrupt controller David Gibson
2019-10-09 9:16 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-09 9:19 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-09 11:38 ` David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 08/19] spapr, xics, xive: Move set_irq from SpaprIrq to SpaprInterruptController David Gibson
2019-10-09 9:18 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 09/19] spapr, xics, xive: Move print_info " David Gibson
2019-10-09 9:19 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 10/19] spapr, xics, xive: Move dt_populate " David Gibson
2019-10-09 9:20 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 11/19] spapr, xics, xive: Match signatures for XICS and XIVE KVM connect routines David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 12/19] spapr: Remove SpaprIrq::init_kvm hook David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 13/19] spapr, xics, xive: Move SpaprIrq::reset hook logic into activate/deactivate David Gibson
2019-10-09 14:25 ` Greg Kurz
2019-10-09 15:56 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-09 15:56 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 14/19] spapr, xics, xive: Move SpaprIrq::post_load hook to backends David Gibson
2019-10-09 15:57 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 15/19] spapr: Remove SpaprIrq::nr_msis David Gibson
2019-10-09 15:59 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-10 1:56 ` David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 16/19] spapr: Move SpaprIrq::nr_xirqs to SpaprMachineClass David Gibson
2019-10-09 16:01 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 17/19] spapr: Remove last pieces of SpaprIrq David Gibson
2019-10-09 16:44 ` Cédric Le Goater
2019-10-10 1:59 ` David Gibson
2019-10-09 17:02 ` Greg Kurz
2019-10-10 2:02 ` David Gibson
2019-10-10 6:29 ` Greg Kurz
2019-10-10 20:33 ` Greg Kurz
2019-10-11 5:07 ` David Gibson
2019-10-11 6:13 ` Greg Kurz
2019-10-11 8:33 ` Greg Kurz
2019-10-12 0:00 ` David Gibson
2019-10-14 9:15 ` Greg Kurz
2019-11-20 5:38 ` David Gibson
2019-11-20 8:36 ` Greg Kurz
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 18/19] spapr: Handle irq backend changes with VFIO PCI devices David Gibson
2019-10-09 8:57 ` David Gibson
2019-10-09 6:08 ` [PATCH v4 19/19] spapr: Work around spurious warnings from vfio INTx initialization David Gibson
2019-10-09 8:37 ` Greg Kurz
2019-10-09 8:52 ` David Gibson
2019-10-09 17:16 ` Greg Kurz
2019-10-10 2:02 ` David Gibson [this message]
2019-10-09 9:02 ` [PATCH v4 00/19] spapr: IRQ subsystem cleanup David Gibson
2019-10-16 16:04 ` Greg Kurz
2019-10-17 0:26 ` David Gibson
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