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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	"Michael Ellerman" <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] powerpc/xive: guest exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 15:54:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170810055426.GV13670@umbus.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1502340360.2563.53.camel@kernel.crashing.org>

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On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 02:46:00PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-08-10 at 14:28 +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > 
> > Also, will POWER9 always have doorbells?  In which case you could
> > reduce it to 3 options.
> 
> The problem with doorbells on POWER9 guests is that they may have
> to trap and be emulated by the hypervisor, since the guest threads
> on P9 don't have to match the HW threads of the core.
> 
> Thus it's quite possible that using XIVE for IPIs is actually faster
> than doorbells in that case.

Ok, well unless there's a compelling reason to use doorbells you can
instead make it 3 cases with POWER9 never using doorbells.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-10  6:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-08  8:56 [PATCH 00/10] guest exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-08  8:56 ` [PATCH 01/10] powerpc/xive: fix OV5_XIVE_EXPLOIT bits Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-08  8:56 ` [PATCH 02/10] powerpc/xive: guest exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-09  3:53   ` David Gibson
2017-08-09  8:48     ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-10  4:28       ` David Gibson
2017-08-10  4:46         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-08-10  5:54           ` David Gibson [this message]
2017-08-10  7:04             ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-10  6:45           ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-10 11:33             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-08-10  7:19         ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-10 11:36           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-08-11  3:55             ` David Gibson
2017-08-08  8:56 ` [PATCH 03/10] powerpc/xive: rename xive_poke_esb in xive_esb_read Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-09  3:55   ` David Gibson
2017-08-09  7:12     ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-09  7:31       ` David Gibson
2017-08-08  8:56 ` [PATCH 04/10] powerpc/xive: introduce xive_esb_write Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-08  8:56 ` [PATCH 05/10] powerpc/xive: add the HW IRQ number under xive_irq_data Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-08  8:56 ` [PATCH 06/10] powerpc/xive: introduce H_INT_ESB hcall Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-08  8:56 ` [PATCH 07/10] powerpc/xive: add XIVE exploitation mode to CAS Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-10 10:20   ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-08  8:56 ` [PATCH 08/10] powerpc/xive: take into account '/ibm, plat-res-int-priorities' Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-09  4:02   ` [PATCH 08/10] powerpc/xive: take into account '/ibm,plat-res-int-priorities' David Gibson
2017-08-09  7:14     ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-10  0:54       ` David Gibson
2017-08-08  8:56 ` [PATCH 09/10] powerpc/xive: improve debugging macros Cédric Le Goater

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