From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751754AbbIXI1D (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2015 04:27:03 -0400 Received: from mailapp01.imgtec.com ([195.59.15.196]:5256 "EHLO mailapp01.imgtec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750770AbbIXI1A (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Sep 2015 04:27:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] irq: add a new generic IPI handling code to irq core To: Jiang Liu , , References: <1443019758-20620-1-git-send-email-qais.yousef@imgtec.com> <1443019758-20620-5-git-send-email-qais.yousef@imgtec.com> <5602D863.4040503@linux.intel.com> CC: , , From: Qais Yousef Message-ID: <5603B3D1.3000405@imgtec.com> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:26:57 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5602D863.4040503@linux.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [192.168.154.94] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/23/2015 05:50 PM, Jiang Liu wrote: > On 2015/9/23 22:49, Qais Yousef wrote: >> >> +/** >> + * irq_reserve_ipi() - setup an IPI to destination cpumask >> + * @domain: IPI domain >> + * @dest: cpumask of cpus to receive the IPI >> + * @devid: devid that requested the reservation >> + * >> + * Allocate a virq that can be used to send IPI to any CPU in dest mask. >> + * >> + * On success it'll return linux irq number and 0 on failure >> + */ >> +unsigned int irq_reserve_ipi(struct irq_domain *domain, >> + const struct cpumask *dest, void *devid) > Hi Qais, > I have caught the idea why we need "dest" here. Per my > understanding, IPI could be sent to any active CPUs and the target > CPUs are specified when calling send_ipi(). What's the benefit or > usage to use "dest" to define a possible target scope here? And > how cpu hotplug? > Thanks! > Gerry > The CPUs we want to send the IPI to are not Linux CPUs only. My use case is about sending IPI to audio coprocessor. So "dest" doesn't have to be part of Linux online CPUs, hence we need to specify it so that the underlying controller will know how to map to that CPU. I should have put more info in the cover letter, not just the link to the discussion, apologies for that. I'm not sure about cpu hotplug. We could call irq_destroy_ipi() when a cpu is hot unplugged, but the current behaviour is to statically reserve the IPI and keep them reserved. I think it makes sense to keep it this way for SMP IPIs or things will get complicated. For a coprocessor, if we the 'module is unloaded', I'd expect the irq_destroy_ipi() to be called returning the reserved IPI to the pool. Makes sense? Thanks, Qais