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From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	"jgg@nvidia.com" <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	"yishaih@nvidia.com" <yishaih@nvidia.com>,
	"shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com" 
	<shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"darwi@linutronix.de" <darwi@linutronix.de>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
	"Liu, Jing2" <jing2.liu@intel.com>,
	"Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	"tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com" <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 7/8] vfio/pci: Support dynamic MSI-x
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 13:46:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc84101a-b6d1-c33d-d7a8-115f846c358c@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230404124334.45cddae2.alex.williamson@redhat.com>

Hi Alex,

On 4/4/2023 11:43 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> 
> I think Kevin has a point, if it's correct that we do this get/write in
> order to account for manipulation of the device since we wrote into the
> vector table via either pci_alloc_irq_vectors() or
> pci_msix_alloc_irq_at(), then it really only makes sense to do that
> restore if we haven't allocated the irq and written the vector table
> immediately prior.  Thanks,
> 

I see. Even so, could it be acceptable to call get_cached_msi_msg()/pci_write_msi_msg()
unconditionally (for MSI-X) or should the new [1] vfio_pci_alloc_irq()
indicate if a new IRQ was allocated to determine if 
get_cached_msi_msg()/pci_write_msi_msg() should be run?

Reinette


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230403211841.0e206b67.alex.williamson@redhat.com/

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-04 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-28 21:53 [PATCH V2 0/8] vfio/pci: Support dynamic allocation of MSI-X interrupts Reinette Chatre
2023-03-28 21:53 ` [PATCH V2 1/8] vfio/pci: Consolidate irq cleanup on MSI/MSI-X disable Reinette Chatre
2023-03-28 21:53 ` [PATCH V2 2/8] vfio/pci: Remove negative check on unsigned vector Reinette Chatre
2023-03-30 20:26   ` Alex Williamson
2023-03-30 22:32     ` Reinette Chatre
2023-03-30 22:54       ` Alex Williamson
2023-03-30 23:54         ` Reinette Chatre
2023-03-28 21:53 ` [PATCH V2 3/8] vfio/pci: Prepare for dynamic interrupt context storage Reinette Chatre
2023-03-28 21:53 ` [PATCH V2 4/8] vfio/pci: Use xarray for " Reinette Chatre
2023-04-07  7:21   ` Liu, Jing2
2023-04-07 16:44     ` Reinette Chatre
2023-03-28 21:53 ` [PATCH V2 5/8] vfio/pci: Remove interrupt context counter Reinette Chatre
2023-03-28 21:53 ` [PATCH V2 6/8] vfio/pci: Move to single error path Reinette Chatre
2023-03-28 21:53 ` [PATCH V2 7/8] vfio/pci: Support dynamic MSI-x Reinette Chatre
2023-03-29  2:48   ` kernel test robot
2023-03-29 14:42     ` Reinette Chatre
2023-03-29 22:10       ` Reinette Chatre
2023-03-29  2:58   ` kernel test robot
2023-03-30 22:40   ` Alex Williamson
2023-03-30 22:42     ` Alex Williamson
2023-03-31 17:49       ` Reinette Chatre
2023-03-31 22:24         ` Alex Williamson
2023-04-03 17:31           ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-03 20:22             ` Alex Williamson
2023-04-03 22:50               ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-04  3:18                 ` Alex Williamson
2023-04-04  3:51                   ` Tian, Kevin
2023-04-04 17:29                     ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-04 18:43                       ` Alex Williamson
2023-04-04 20:46                         ` Reinette Chatre [this message]
2023-04-04 16:54                   ` Reinette Chatre
2023-04-04 18:24                     ` Alex Williamson
2023-04-06 20:13                       ` Reinette Chatre
2023-03-31 10:02   ` Liu, Jing2
2023-03-31 13:51     ` Alex Williamson
2023-04-04  3:19       ` Liu, Jing2
2023-03-28 21:53 ` [PATCH V2 8/8] vfio/pci: Clear VFIO_IRQ_INFO_NORESIZE for MSI-X Reinette Chatre
2023-03-29  3:29   ` kernel test robot
2023-03-29  3:29   ` kernel test robot

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