Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] Add VFIO mediated device support and IMS support for the idxd driver.

Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-03T22:21:58Z

On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 03:31:14PM -0700, Dey, Megha wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> On 4/23/2020 12:49 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 12:17:50PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> >
> > > Per Megha's follow-up can you send the details about that other device
> > > and help clear a path for a device-specific MSI addr/data table
> > > format. Ever since HMM I've been sensitive, perhaps overly-sensitive,
> > > to claims about future upstream users. The fact that you have an
> > > additional use case is golden for pushing this into a common area and
> > > validating the scope of the proposed API.
> >
> > I think I said it at plumbers, but yes, we are interested in this, and
> > would like dynamic MSI-like interrupts available to the driver (what
> > Intel calls IMS)
> >
>
> So basically you are looking for a way to dynamically allocate the
> platform-msi interrupts, correct?

The basic high level interface here seems fine, which is bascially a
way for a driver to grab a bunch of platform-msi interrupts for its
own use

> Since I don't have access to any of the platform-msi devices, it is hard for
> me to test this code for other drivers expect idxd for now.
> Once I submit the next round of patches, after addressing all the comments,
> would it be possible for you to test this code for any of your devices?

Possibly, need to find time

Jason