Re: [PATCH v14 1/2] vmx: VT-d posted-interrupt core logic handling

["Wu, Feng" <feng.wu@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tian, Kevin
> Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2016 1:25 PM
> To: Wu, Feng <feng.wu@intel.com>; xen-devel@lists.xen.org
> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>; Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>; Andrew
> Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>; George Dunlap
> <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>; Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH v14 1/2] vmx: VT-d posted-interrupt core logic handling
> 
> > From: Wu, Feng
> > Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 11:00 AM
> >
> > This is the core logic handling for VT-d posted-interrupts. Basically it
> > deals with how and when to update posted-interrupts during the following
> > scenarios:
> > - vCPU is preempted
> > - vCPU is slept
> > - vCPU is blocked
> >
> > When vCPU is preempted/slept, we update the posted-interrupts during
> > scheduling by introducing two new architecutral scheduler hooks:
> > vmx_pi_switch_from() and vmx_pi_switch_to(). When vCPU is blocked, we
> > introduce a new architectural hook: arch_vcpu_block() to update
> > posted-interrupts descriptor.
> >
> > Besides that, before VM-entry, we will make sure the 'NV' filed is set
> > to 'posted_intr_vector' and the vCPU is not in any blocking lists, which
> > is needed when vCPU is running in non-root mode. The reason we do this
> check
> > is because we change the posted-interrupts descriptor in vcpu_block(),
> > however, we don't change it back in vcpu_unblock() or when vcpu_block()
> > directly returns due to event delivery (in fact, we don't need to do it
> > in the two places, that is why we do it before VM-Entry).
> >
> > When we handle the lazy context switch for the following two scenarios:
> > - Preempted by a tasklet, which uses in an idle context.
> > - the prev vcpu is in offline and no new available vcpus in run queue.
> > We don't change the 'SN' bit in posted-interrupt descriptor, this
> > may incur spurious PI notification events, but since PI notification
> > event is only sent when 'ON' is clear, and once the PI notificatoin
> > is sent, ON is set by hardware, hence no more notification events
> > before 'ON' is clear. Besides that, spurious PI notification events are
> > going to happen from time to time in Xen hypervisor, such as, when
> > guests trap to Xen and PI notification event happens, there is
> > nothing Xen actually needs to do about it, the interrupts will be
> > delivered to guest atht the next time we do a VMENTRY.
> >
> > CC: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
> > CC: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> > CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
> > CC: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
> > CC: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
> > CC: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
> > Suggested-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>
> > Suggested-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
> > Suggested-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
> > Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Feng Wu <feng.wu@intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>

Thanks a lot, Kevin!

Thanks
Feng

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