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From: "rkrcmar@redhat.com" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>
Cc: "Wu, Feng" <feng.wu@intel.com>,
	"pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: x86: Use vector-hashing to deliver lowest-priority interrupts
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:49:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160122134911.GC14104@potion.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A1A94C.7010703@gmail.com>

2016-01-22 12:00+0800, Yang Zhang:
> On 2016/1/22 1:21, rkrcmar@redhat.com wrote:
>>(I think there isn't a practical difference between *r=-1 and *r=0.)
> 
> Currently, if *r == -1, the remote_irr may get set. But it seems wrong. I

Yeah ...

> need to have a double check to see whether it is a bug in current code.

Looking forward to the patch!

Thanks.

>>'ret = true' is the better one.  We know that the interrupt is not
>>deliverable [1], so there's no point in trying to deliver with the slow
>>path.  We behave similarly when the interrupt targets a single disabled
>>APIC.
>>
>>---
>>1: Well ... it's possible that slowpath would deliver it thanks to
>>    different handling of disabled APICs, but it's undefined behavior,
> 
> why it is undefined behavior? Besides, why we will keep two different
> handling logic for the fast path and slow path? It looks weird.

It does look very weird ... the slow path would require refactoring,
though, so we save effort without a considerable drawback.
(I would love if it behaved identically, but I don't want to force it on
 someone and likely won't do it myself ...)

I consider it undefined because SMD says that an OS musn't configure
this behavior and doesn't say what should happen if the OS does => we
could do anything.  (Killing the guest would be great for debugging OS
issues, but ours behavior is fairly conservative.)

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-22 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-20  1:42 [PATCH v3 0/4] VT-d posted-interrupts follow ups Feng Wu
2016-01-20  1:42 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] KVM: Recover IRTE to remapped mode if the interrupt is not single-destination Feng Wu
2016-01-21  3:05   ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-21  3:14     ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-21  3:34       ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-21  4:42         ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-21  4:54           ` Tian, Kevin
2016-01-21  4:59           ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-21  5:07             ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-21  5:35               ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-21  5:41                 ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-21  5:44                   ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-21 16:35                     ` rkrcmar
2016-01-22  2:03                       ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-22 13:31                         ` rkrcmar
2016-01-25  1:49                           ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-25 13:59                             ` rkrcmar
2016-01-26  1:44                               ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-26 18:22                                 ` rkrcmar
2016-01-27  2:07                                   ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-27 15:05                                     ` rkrcmar
2016-01-21 16:19   ` Radim Krčmář
2016-01-22  1:49     ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-22 13:05       ` Radim Krcmár
2016-01-25 12:22         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-25 12:26           ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-25 12:38             ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-25 12:48               ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-25 14:05             ` Radim Krcmár
2016-01-26  0:57               ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-20  1:42 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: x86: Use vector-hashing to deliver lowest-priority interrupts Feng Wu
2016-01-21  5:23   ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-21  5:33     ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-21  5:42       ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-21  5:46         ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-21  5:57           ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-21  6:02             ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-21  6:07               ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-21 17:21       ` rkrcmar
2016-01-22  2:01         ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-22  4:00         ` Yang Zhang
2016-01-22 13:49           ` rkrcmar [this message]
2016-01-21 19:49   ` Radim Krčmář
2016-01-22  5:12     ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-22 14:01       ` Radim Krcmár
2016-01-25 12:25         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-25 15:20           ` Radim Krcmár
2016-01-25 16:14             ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-26  1:10               ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-20  1:42 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] KVM: x86: Add lowest-priority support for vt-d posted-interrupts Feng Wu
2016-01-21 20:16   ` Radim Krčmář
2016-01-22  5:12     ` Wu, Feng
2016-01-22 14:07       ` Radim Krcmár
2016-01-20  1:42 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] KVM/VMX: Add host irq information in trace event when updating IRTE for posted interrupts Feng Wu
2016-01-21 20:19   ` Radim Krčmář

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