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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Feng Wu <feng.wu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: dwmw2-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org,
	jiang.liu-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org,
	iommu-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [v8 3/9] iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 15:59:09 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1506021501070.3786@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432699544-17444-4-git-send-email-feng.wu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, 27 May 2015, Feng Wu wrote:
> +	/* stop posting interrupts, back to remapping mode */
> +	if (!vcpu_info) {
> +		modify_irte(&ir_data->irq_2_iommu, &ir_data->irte_entry);
> +	} else {
> +		vcpu_pi_info = (struct vcpu_data *)vcpu_info;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * "ir_data->irte_entry" saves the remapped format of IRTE,
> +		 * which being a cached irte is still updated when setting
> +		 * the affinity even when we are in posted mode. So this make

s/make/makes/

> +		 * it possible to switch back to remapped mode from posted mode,
> +		 * we can just set "ir_data->irte_entry" to hardware for that
> +		 * purpose. Here we store the posted format of IRTE in another
> +		 * new member "ir_data->irte_pi_entry" to not corrupt

Remove the 'another new member' please. That member is not longer new
once that patch is applied.

Now there is another question. Are we actually using that pi_entry
cached value for anything else than this code here? If not, we can do
this on the stack and avoid the extra storage in ir_data.

Thanks,

	tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-02 13:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-27  4:05 [v8 0/9] Add VT-d Posted-Interrupts support - IOMMU part Feng Wu
     [not found] ` <1432699544-17444-1-git-send-email-feng.wu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-05-27  4:05   ` [v8 1/9] iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops Feng Wu
2015-05-27  4:05   ` [v8 2/9] iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts Feng Wu
2015-05-27  4:05   ` [v8 3/9] iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip Feng Wu
     [not found]     ` <1432699544-17444-4-git-send-email-feng.wu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-02 13:59       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2015-06-03  1:05         ` Wu, Feng
2015-05-27  4:05   ` [v8 4/9] iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE Feng Wu
2015-05-27  4:05   ` [v8 5/9] iommu, x86: No need to migrating irq for VT-d Posted-Interrupts Feng Wu
2015-05-27  4:05   ` [v8 6/9] iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability Feng Wu
2015-05-27  4:05   ` [v8 7/9] iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu Feng Wu
2015-05-27  4:05   ` [v8 8/9] iommu, x86: define irq_remapping_cap() Feng Wu
2015-05-27  4:05   ` [v8 9/9] iommu, x86: Properly handler PI for IOMMU hotplug Feng Wu
2015-06-01  2:18   ` [v8 0/9] Add VT-d Posted-Interrupts support - IOMMU part Wu, Feng

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