From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Marc Zygnier <maz@kernel.org>, Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>,
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-ntb@googlegroups.com,
Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>,
Megha Dey <megha.dey@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 21/32] NTB/msi: Convert to msi_on_each_desc()
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:41:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmqg88xq.ffs@tglx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c2262ba-173e-0007-bc4c-94ec54b2847d@intel.com>
Dave,
please trim your replies.
On Wed, Dec 01 2021 at 09:28, Dave Jiang wrote:
> On 12/1/2021 3:16 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Jason,
>>
>> CC+ IOMMU folks
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 30 2021 at 20:17, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 10:23:16PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>
>> Though I fear there is also a use case for MSI-X and IMS tied to the
>> same device. That network card you are talking about might end up using
>> MSI-X for a control block and then IMS for the actual network queues
>> when it is used as physical function device as a whole, but that's
>> conceptually a different case.
>
> Hi Thomas. This is actually the IDXD usage for a mediated device passed
> to a guest kernel when we plumb the pass through of IMS to the guest
> rather than doing previous implementation of having a MSIX vector on
> guest backed by IMS.
Which makes a lot of sense.
> The control block for the mediated device is emulated and therefore an
> emulated MSIX vector will be surfaced as vector 0. However the queues
> will backed by IMS vectors. So we end up needing MSIX and IMS coexist
> running on the guest kernel for the same device.
Why? What's wrong with using straight MSI-X for all of them?
Thanks,
tglx
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2021-12-01 10:16 ` [patch 21/32] NTB/msi: Convert to msi_on_each_desc() Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 13:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-01 17:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 18:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-01 18:46 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2021-12-01 20:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-02 0:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-02 13:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-02 14:23 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-02 14:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-02 19:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-02 20:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-02 22:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-03 0:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-03 15:07 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-03 16:41 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-04 14:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-05 14:16 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-06 14:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-06 15:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-06 17:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-06 20:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-06 21:06 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-06 22:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-06 14:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-06 15:06 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-09 6:26 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 9:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-09 12:17 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 15:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-10 7:37 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 5:41 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 5:47 ` Jason Wang
2021-12-01 16:28 ` Dave Jiang
2021-12-01 18:41 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2021-12-01 18:47 ` Dave Jiang
2021-12-01 20:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 21:21 ` Dave Jiang
2021-12-01 21:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 21:49 ` Dave Jiang
2021-12-01 22:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-01 22:53 ` Dave Jiang
2021-12-01 23:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-09 5:23 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 8:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-09 12:31 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-09 16:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-09 20:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-09 20:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-09 22:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-10 0:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-10 7:29 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-10 12:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-11 8:06 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-10 12:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-10 19:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-11 7:44 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-11 13:04 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-12 1:56 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-12 20:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-12 23:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-13 7:50 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-11 7:52 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-12 0:12 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-12 2:14 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-12 20:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-12 23:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-10 7:36 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-12-10 12:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe via iommu
2021-12-12 6:44 ` Mika Penttilä
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