From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: in-kernel irqchip
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:05:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1361228759.25178.3@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130218120451.GB9817@redhat.com> (from gleb@redhat.com on Mon Feb 18 06:04:51 2013)
On 02/18/2013 06:04:51 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Can you tell us why mpic should be in kernel? Is it used often by
> modern
> guests or may be they prefer MSI for interrupt delivery (hmm may be
> MSIs
> are delivered through mpic too)?
Yes, MSIs are delivered through the mpic.
Plus, MSIs are only (normally) for PCI(e). We have embedded "system on
a chip"s with important non-PCI devices, which cannot use MSIs.
> On x86 we actually would've preferred
> to move PIC/IOAPIC form the kernel and leave only LAPIC there (but for
> historical reasons creation of PIC/IOAPIC/LAPIC are bundled together)
> hence my question.
We don't have that same split on this hardware. MPIC is one device
that covers all of it. Some of the functionality is per-CPU, but it is
not easily extracted from the rest.
-Scott
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>,
<kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: in-kernel irqchip
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:05:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1361228759.25178.3@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130218120451.GB9817@redhat.com> (from gleb@redhat.com on Mon Feb 18 06:04:51 2013)
On 02/18/2013 06:04:51 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> Can you tell us why mpic should be in kernel? Is it used often by
> modern
> guests or may be they prefer MSI for interrupt delivery (hmm may be
> MSIs
> are delivered through mpic too)?
Yes, MSIs are delivered through the mpic.
Plus, MSIs are only (normally) for PCI(e). We have embedded "system on
a chip"s with important non-PCI devices, which cannot use MSIs.
> On x86 we actually would've preferred
> to move PIC/IOAPIC form the kernel and leave only LAPIC there (but for
> historical reasons creation of PIC/IOAPIC/LAPIC are bundled together)
> hence my question.
We don't have that same split on this hardware. MPIC is one device
that covers all of it. Some of the functionality is per-CPU, but it is
not easily extracted from the rest.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-18 23:05 UTC|newest]
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2013-02-14 5:49 [RFC PATCH 0/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: in-kernel irqchip Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] kvm: add device control API Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-18 12:21 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-18 12:21 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-18 23:01 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-18 23:01 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-19 0:43 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-02-19 0:43 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-02-19 12:24 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-19 12:24 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-19 15:51 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-02-19 15:51 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-02-19 21:16 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-19 21:16 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-20 13:09 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-20 13:09 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-20 21:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-20 21:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-20 22:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-20 22:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-20 23:53 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-20 23:53 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-21 0:14 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-21 0:14 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-21 1:28 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-21 1:28 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-21 6:39 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-21 6:39 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-21 23:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-21 23:03 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-22 2:00 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-22 2:00 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-23 15:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-23 15:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-26 0:27 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-26 0:27 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-21 2:05 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-21 2:05 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-21 8:22 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-21 8:22 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-22 2:17 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-22 2:17 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-24 15:46 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-24 15:46 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-25 15:23 ` Alexander Graf
2013-02-25 15:23 ` Alexander Graf
2013-02-26 2:38 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-26 2:38 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-20 21:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-20 21:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-20 23:20 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-20 23:20 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-21 0:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-21 0:01 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-02-21 0:33 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-21 0:33 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-25 1:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-02-25 1:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-02-25 13:09 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-25 13:09 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-25 15:29 ` Alexander Graf
2013-02-25 15:29 ` Alexander Graf
2013-02-19 0:44 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-02-19 0:44 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-02-19 0:53 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-19 0:53 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-19 5:50 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-02-19 5:50 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-02-19 12:45 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-19 12:45 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-19 20:16 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-19 20:16 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-20 2:16 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-02-20 2:16 ` Christoffer Dall
2013-02-24 13:12 ` Marc Zyngier
2013-02-24 13:12 ` Marc Zyngier
2013-03-06 0:59 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-06 0:59 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-06 1:20 ` Scott Wood
2013-03-06 1:20 ` Scott Wood
2013-03-06 2:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-06 2:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-06 3:36 ` Scott Wood
2013-03-06 3:36 ` Scott Wood
2013-03-06 4:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-06 4:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-03-06 10:18 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-03-06 10:18 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-14 5:49 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] kvm/ppc: add a notifier chain for vcpu creation/destruction Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: import hw/openpic.c from QEMU Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: remove some obviously unneeded code Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: adapt to kernel style and environment Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: in-kernel MPIC emulation Scott Wood
2013-02-14 5:49 ` Scott Wood
2013-03-21 8:28 ` Alexander Graf
2013-03-21 8:28 ` Alexander Graf
2013-03-21 14:43 ` Scott Wood
2013-03-21 14:43 ` Scott Wood
2013-03-21 14:52 ` Alexander Graf
2013-03-21 14:52 ` Alexander Graf
2013-02-18 12:04 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: in-kernel irqchip Gleb Natapov
2013-02-18 12:04 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-18 23:05 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2013-02-18 23:05 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] device control and in-kernel MPIC Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/6] kvm: add device control API Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-02 6:59 ` tiejun.chen
2013-04-02 6:59 ` tiejun.chen
[not found] ` <1364923807.24520.2@snotra>
2013-04-03 1:28 ` tiejun.chen
2013-04-03 1:28 ` tiejun.chen
[not found] ` <1364952853.8690.3@snotra>
2013-04-03 1:42 ` tiejun.chen
2013-04-03 1:42 ` tiejun.chen
2013-04-03 1:02 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-03 1:02 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-03 1:19 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:19 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 2:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-03 2:17 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-03 13:22 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 13:22 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 17:37 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 17:37 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 17:39 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 17:39 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 9:58 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-04 9:58 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-03 21:03 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 21:03 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: import hw/openpic.c from QEMU Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: remove some obviously unneeded code Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: adapt to kernel style and environment Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` [RFC PATCH v2 5/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: in-kernel MPIC emulation Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: add KVM_CAP_IRQ_MPIC Scott Wood
2013-04-01 22:47 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/6] device control and in-kernel MPIC Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/6] kvm: add device control API Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 15:13 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 15:13 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 10:41 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-04 10:41 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-04 23:47 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-04 23:47 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-08 10:34 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-08 10:34 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-05 1:02 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-05 1:02 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-08 10:37 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-08 10:37 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-08 5:33 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-08 5:33 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-09 0:50 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-09 0:50 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: import hw/openpic.c from QEMU Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: remove some obviously unneeded code Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: adapt to kernel style and environment Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 5/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: in-kernel MPIC emulation Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 15:55 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-03 15:55 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-03 20:58 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 20:58 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-04 5:59 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-04 5:59 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-04 23:33 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-04 23:33 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-08 10:39 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-08 10:39 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-03 16:19 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 16:19 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 21:38 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 21:38 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 21:58 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 21:58 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 22:07 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 22:07 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 22:12 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 22:12 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 22:54 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 22:54 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-04 9:42 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 9:42 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-03 23:23 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 23:23 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 23:23 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-08 6:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-08 6:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-09 0:49 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-09 0:49 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 6/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: add KVM_CAP_IRQ_MPIC Scott Wood
2013-04-03 1:57 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-04 12:54 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 12:54 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 18:41 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-04 18:41 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-04 22:30 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 22:30 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-04 22:35 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-04 22:35 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-05 6:09 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-05 6:09 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-05 17:11 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-05 17:11 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` [PATCH v4 0/6] device-control and in-kernel MPIC Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] kvm: add device control API Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-25 9:43 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-25 9:43 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-25 10:47 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-25 10:47 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-25 12:07 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-25 12:07 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-25 13:45 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-25 13:45 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-25 13:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-25 13:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-25 16:51 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-25 16:51 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-25 18:22 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-25 18:22 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-25 18:59 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-25 18:59 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-26 9:53 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-26 9:53 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-26 9:55 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-26 9:55 ` Alexander Graf
2013-04-26 9:57 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-26 9:57 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-13 0:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: import hw/openpic.c from QEMU Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: remove some obviously unneeded code Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: adapt to kernel style and environment Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` [PATCH v4 5/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: in-kernel MPIC emulation Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] kvm/ppc/mpic: add KVM_CAP_IRQ_MPIC Scott Wood
2013-04-13 0:08 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-15 5:23 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-15 5:23 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-15 17:52 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-15 17:52 ` Scott Wood
2013-04-16 3:59 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-04-16 3:59 ` Paul Mackerras
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