Re: [PART2 PATCH v6 12/12] svm: Implements update_pi_irte hook to setup posted interrupt

Radim Krčmář
2016-08-22T15:16:57Z

2016-08-22 17:09+0700, Suravee Suthikulpanit:
> On 08/22/2016 04:19 PM, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
>> > he problem with wrappers is that we don't know what list we should
>> > remove the "struct amd_ir_data" from; we would need to add another
>> > tracking structure or go through all VCPUs.
>> >
>> > Having "struct list_head" in "struct amd_ir_data" would allow us to know
>> > the current list and remove it from there:
>> > One "struct amd_ir_data" should never be used by more than one caller of
>> > amd_iommu_update_ga(), because they would have to be cooperating anyway,
>> > which would mean a single mediator, so we can add a "struct list_head"
>> > into "struct amd_ir_data".
>> >
>> > Minor design note:
>> > To make the usage of "struct amd_ir_data" safer, we could pass "struct
>> > list_head" into irq_set_vcpu_affinity(), instead of returning "struct
>> > amd_ir_data *".
>> >
>> > irq_set_vcpu_affinity() would add "struct amd_ir_data" to the list
>> > only
>> > if ir_data was not already in some list and report whether the list
>> > was modified.
>> >
>> > I think that adding "struct list_head" into "struct amd_ir_data" is
>> > nicer than having wrappers.
>> >
>> > Joerg, Paolo, what do you think?
>> >
>>
>> I think modifying irq_set_vcpu_affinity() to also pass struct list_head
>> seems a bit redundant since it is currently design to allow passing in
>> void *, which leaves the other option where we might just need to pass
>> in a wrapper (e.g. going back to the previous design where we pass in
>> struct amd_iommu_pi_data) and also add a pointer to the ir_list in the
>> wrapper as well. Then, IOMMU is responsible for adding/deleting ir_data
>> to/from this list instead of SVM. This should be fine since we only need
>> to coordinate b/w SVM and AMD-IOMMU.
>
> Actually, thinking about this again, going back to keeping the per-vcpu list
> of struct amd_iommu_pi_data is probably the simplest here.
>
> * We avoid having to expose the amd_ir_data to SVM.
> * We can match using amd_ir_data * when traversing the list.
> * We can easily add the code to manage the list in the SVM. We can make sure
> that the struct amd_iommu_pi_data is not already mapped before adding it to
> a new per-vcpu list. If it is currently mapped, we can simply unmapped it.

Sounds good.
A new SVM-specific wrapper for amd_ir_data instead of reusing
amd_iommu_pi_data would be nicer, IMO -- we could change it without
touching the IOMMU interface and also allocate in svm_pi_list_add.

Updating lists would become O(N^2), but updates should not occur often
(and N small) so I think it's still worth the saving on every
sched_in/out.

> Doing this from IOMMU would be more complicate and require lots of parameter
> passing.

Yeah, doing more than returning amd_ir_data from IOMMU doesn't make
sense and not adding list_head for SVm to amd_ir_data is more
acceptable.

Thanks.