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Subject: Re: [11/15] cxl: Add support for interrupts on the Mellanox CX4
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On Wed, 2016-13-07 at 21:17:10 UTC, Ian Munsie wrote:
> From: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
> 
> The Mellanox CX4 in cxl mode uses a hybrid interrupt model, where
> interrupts are routed from the networking hardware to the XSL using the
> MSIX table, and from there will be transformed back into an MSIX
> interrupt using the cxl style interrupts (i.e. using IVTE entries and
> ranges to map a PE and AFU interrupt number to an MSIX address).
> 
> We want to hide the implementation details of cxl interrupts as much as
> possible. To this end, we use a special version of the MSI setup &
> teardown routines in the PHB while in cxl mode to allocate the cxl
> interrupts and configure the IVTE entries in the process element.
> 
> This function does not configure the MSIX table - the CX4 card uses a
> custom format in that table and it would not be appropriate to fill that
> out in generic code. The rest of the functionality is similar to the
> "Full MSI-X mode" described in the CAIA, and this could be easily
> extended to support other adapters that use that mode in the future.
> 
> The interrupts will be associated with the default context. If the
> maximum number of interrupts per context has been limited (e.g. by the
> mlx5 driver), it will automatically allocate additional kernel contexts
> to associate extra interrupts as required. These contexts will be
> started using the same WED that was used to start the default context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/a2f67d5ee8d950caaa7a6144cf

cheers