Re: [PATCH v3 6/5] AHCI: Do not read HOST_IRQ_STAT register in multi-MSI mode

[Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 09:34:34AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> wrote:
> > As described in AHCI v1.0 specification chapter 10.6.2.2
> > "Multiple MSI Based Messages" generation of interrupts
> > is not controlled through the HOST_IRQ_STAT register.
> >
> > Considering MMIO access is expensive remove unnecessary
> > reading and writing of HOST_IRQ_STAT register.
> >
> > Further, serializing access to the host data is no longer
> > needed and the interrupt service routine can avoid competing
> > on the host lock.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
> > Suggested-by: "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@intel.com>
> > Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
> > ---
> >  drivers/ata/ahci.h    |  1 +
> >  drivers/ata/libahci.c | 54 ++++++++-------------------------------------------
> >  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci.h b/drivers/ata/ahci.h
> > index c12f590..b8e117a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/ata/ahci.h
> > +++ b/drivers/ata/ahci.h
> > @@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ struct ahci_port_priv {
> >         unsigned int            ncq_saw_dmas:1;
> >         unsigned int            ncq_saw_sdb:1;
> >         u32                     intr_status;    /* interrupts to handle */
> > +       spinlock_t              intr_lock;      /* protects intr_status */
> 
> Why introduce a new lock?  Can't we switch to per-ata port locking
> rather than ata_host locking?

We could. But this case hardware context interrupt handler would compete
with threads/softriqs, which is exactly what I tried to avoid. With the
separate lock we *only* update ahci_port_priv::intr_status with interrupts
disabled.

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Regards,
Alexander Gordeev
agordeev@redhat.com