From: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
To: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: benh@au1.ibm.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com, yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
bhelgaas@google.com, qiudayu@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V3 06/17] ppc/pnv: allocate pe->iommu_table dynamically
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:12:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AA4C32.7060004@ozlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140625011211.GA5785@richard>
On 06/25/2014 11:12 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 08:06:32PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> On 06/10/2014 11:56 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
>>> Current iommu_table of a PE is a static field. This will have a problem when
>>> iommu_free_table is called.
>>
>> What kind of problem? This table is per PE and PE is not going anywhere.
>>
>
> Yes, for Bus PE, they will always sit in the system. When VF PE introduced,
> they could be released on the fly. When they are released, so do the iommu
> table for the PE.
iommu_table is a part of PE struct. When PE is released, iommu_table will
go with it as well. Why to make is a pointer? I would understand it if you
added reference counting there but no - iommu_table's lifetime is equal to
PE lifetime.
--
Alexey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-25 4:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-10 1:56 [RFC PATCH V3 00/17] Enable SRIOV on POWER8 Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 01/17] pci/iov: Export interface for retrieve VF's BDF Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 02/17] pci/of: Match PCI VFs to dev-tree nodes dynamically Wei Yang
2014-06-23 5:07 ` Gavin Shan
2014-06-23 6:29 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 03/17] ppc/pci: don't unset pci resources for VFs Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 04/17] PCI: SRIOV: add VF enable/disable hook Wei Yang
2014-06-23 5:03 ` Gavin Shan
2014-06-23 6:29 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 05/17] ppc/pnv: user macro to define the TCE size Wei Yang
2014-06-23 5:12 ` Gavin Shan
2014-06-23 6:31 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 06/17] ppc/pnv: allocate pe->iommu_table dynamically Wei Yang
2014-06-24 10:06 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-25 1:12 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-25 4:12 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy [this message]
2014-06-25 5:27 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-25 7:50 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-25 7:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-25 9:18 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-25 9:13 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-25 9:20 ` David Laight
2014-06-25 9:31 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-25 10:30 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-07-14 3:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 07/17] ppc/pnv: Add function to deconfig a PE Wei Yang
2014-06-23 5:27 ` Gavin Shan
2014-06-23 9:07 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 08/17] PCI: Add weak pcibios_sriov_resource_size() interface Wei Yang
2014-06-23 5:41 ` Gavin Shan
2014-06-23 7:56 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 09/17] PCI: Add weak pcibios_sriov_resource_alignment() interface Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 10/17] PCI: take additional IOV BAR alignment in sizing and assigning Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 11/17] ppc/pnv: Expand VF resources according to the number of total_pe Wei Yang
2014-06-23 6:07 ` Gavin Shan
2014-06-23 6:56 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-23 7:08 ` Gavin Shan
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 12/17] powerpc/powernv: implement pcibios_sriov_resource_alignment on powernv Wei Yang
2014-06-23 6:09 ` Gavin Shan
2014-06-23 8:21 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-23 23:29 ` Gavin Shan
2014-06-24 1:24 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 13/17] powerpc/powernv: shift VF resource with an offset Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 14/17] ppc/pci: create/release dev-tree node for VFs Wei Yang
2014-06-18 18:26 ` Grant Likely
2014-06-18 20:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-19 2:46 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-19 8:30 ` Grant Likely
2014-06-19 9:42 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-20 3:46 ` Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 15/17] powerpc/powernv: allocate VF PE Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 16/17] ppc/pci: Expanding IOV BAR, with m64_per_iov supported Wei Yang
2014-06-10 1:56 ` [RFC PATCH V3 17/17] ppc/pnv: Group VF PE when IOV BAR is big on PHB3 Wei Yang
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