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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"mtosatti@redhat.com" <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"yongjie.ren@intel.com" <yongjie.ren@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Use IRQF_ONESHOT for assigned device MSI interrupts
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:16:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FCCB531.4000008@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1206041458490.3086@ionos>

On 2012-06-04 15:07, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-06-04 13:21, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> So this shortcut requires some checks before being applied to a specific
>> MSI/MSI-X vector.
>>
>>
>> Taking KVM aside, my general question remains if threaded MSI handlers
>> of all devices really need to apply IRQF_ONESHOT though they should have
>> no use for it.
> 
> In theory no, but we had more than one incident, where threaded irqs
> w/o a primary handler and w/o IRQF_ONEHSOT lead to full system
> starvation. Linus requested this sanity check and I think it's sane
> and required.

OK.

> 
> In fact it's a non issue for MSI. MSI uses handle_edge_irq which does
> not mask the interrupt. IRQF_ONESHOT is a noop for that flow handler.

Isn't irq_finalize_oneshot processes for all flows?

Jan

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-04 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-01 16:16 [PATCH] KVM: Use IRQF_ONESHOT for assigned device MSI interrupts Alex Williamson
2012-06-01 16:39 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-06-01 17:03   ` Alex Williamson
2012-06-01 17:14     ` Jan Kiszka
2012-06-01 17:59       ` Alex Williamson
2012-06-01 18:26         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-06-03  8:42           ` Avi Kivity
2012-06-04 11:21             ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-04 11:40               ` Jan Kiszka
2012-06-04 13:07                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-04 13:16                   ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2012-06-04 13:22                     ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-06-08  7:47                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-08  7:55                   ` Jan Kiszka
2012-06-08  8:00                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-08  8:03                       ` Jan Kiszka
2012-06-08 14:39                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-08 14:50                   ` Jan Kiszka
2012-06-11 10:01                     ` Avi Kivity
2012-06-11 10:21                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-06-18  8:46                         ` Ren, Yongjie
2012-06-18 11:00                         ` Avi Kivity

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