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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] evtchn: add FIFO-based event channel ABI
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 19:08:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1376071720-17644-8-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376071720-17644-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com>

From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>

Add the event channel hypercall sub-ops and the definitions for the
shared data structures for the FIFO-based event channel ABI.

The design document for this new ABI is available here:

http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dvrabel/event-channels-C.pdf

In summary, events are reported using a per-domain shared event array
of event words.  Each event word has PENDING, LINKED and MASKED bits
and a LINK field for pointing to the next event in the event queue.

There are 16 event queues (with different priorities) per-VCPU.

Key advantages of this new ABI include:

- Support for over 100,000 events (2^17).
- 16 different event priorities.
- Improved fairness in event latency through the use of FIFOs.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
---
 xen/include/public/event_channel.h |   72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 xen/include/public/xen.h           |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xen/include/public/event_channel.h b/xen/include/public/event_channel.h
index 472efdb..c7a031c 100644
--- a/xen/include/public/event_channel.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/event_channel.h
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@
 #define EVTCHNOP_bind_vcpu        8
 #define EVTCHNOP_unmask           9
 #define EVTCHNOP_reset           10
+#define EVTCHNOP_init_control    11
+#define EVTCHNOP_expand_array    12
+#define EVTCHNOP_set_priority    13
+#define EVTCHNOP_set_limit       14
 /* ` } */
 
 typedef uint32_t evtchn_port_t;
@@ -258,6 +262,48 @@ struct evtchn_reset {
 typedef struct evtchn_reset evtchn_reset_t;
 
 /*
+ * EVTCHNOP_init_control: initialize the control block for the FIFO ABI.
+ */
+struct evtchn_init_control {
+    /* IN parameters. */
+    uint64_t control_mfn;
+    uint32_t offset;
+    uint32_t vcpu;
+    /* OUT parameters. */
+    uint8_t link_bits;
+};
+typedef struct evtchn_init_control evtchn_init_control_t;
+
+/*
+ * EVTCHNOP_expand_array: add an additional page to the event array.
+ */
+struct evtchn_expand_array {
+    /* IN parameters. */
+    uint64_t array_mfn;
+};
+typedef struct evtchn_expand_array evtchn_expand_array_t;
+
+/*
+ * EVTCHNOP_set_priority: set the priority for an event channel.
+ */
+struct evtchn_set_priority {
+    /* IN parameters. */
+    uint32_t port;
+    uint32_t priority;
+};
+typedef struct evtchn_set_priority evtchn_set_priority_t;
+
+/*
+ * EVTCHNOP_set_limit: set the maximum event channel port that may be bound.
+ */
+struct evtchn_set_limit {
+    /* IN parameters. */
+    uint32_t domid;
+    uint32_t max_port;
+};
+typedef struct evtchn_set_limit evtchn_set_limit_t;
+
+/*
  * ` enum neg_errnoval
  * ` HYPERVISOR_event_channel_op_compat(struct evtchn_op *op)
  * `
@@ -281,6 +327,32 @@ struct evtchn_op {
 typedef struct evtchn_op evtchn_op_t;
 DEFINE_XEN_GUEST_HANDLE(evtchn_op_t);
 
+/*
+ * FIFO ABI
+ */
+
+/* Events may have priorities from 0 (highest) to 15 (lowest). */
+#define EVTCHN_FIFO_PRIORITY_MIN     15
+#define EVTCHN_FIFO_PRIORITY_DEFAULT 7
+
+#define EVTCHN_FIFO_MAX_QUEUES (EVTCHN_FIFO_PRIORITY_MIN + 1)
+
+typedef uint32_t event_word_t;
+
+#define EVTCHN_FIFO_PENDING 31
+#define EVTCHN_FIFO_MASKED  30
+#define EVTCHN_FIFO_LINKED  29
+
+#define EVTCHN_FIFO_LINK_BITS 17
+#define EVTCHN_FIFO_LINK_MASK ((1 << EVTCHN_FIFO_LINK_BITS) - 1)
+
+struct evtchn_fifo_control_block {
+    uint32_t ready;
+    uint32_t _rsvd1;
+    uint32_t head[EVTCHN_FIFO_MAX_QUEUES];
+};
+typedef struct evtchn_fifo_control_block evtchn_fifo_control_block_t;
+
 #endif /* __XEN_PUBLIC_EVENT_CHANNEL_H__ */
 
 /*
diff --git a/xen/include/public/xen.h b/xen/include/public/xen.h
index 3cab74f..eed3508 100644
--- a/xen/include/public/xen.h
+++ b/xen/include/public/xen.h
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ typedef struct multicall_entry multicall_entry_t;
 DEFINE_XEN_GUEST_HANDLE(multicall_entry_t);
 
 /*
- * Event channel endpoints per domain:
+ * Event channel endpoints per domain (when using the 2-level ABI):
  *  1024 if a long is 32 bits; 4096 if a long is 64 bits.
  */
 #define NR_EVENT_CHANNELS (sizeof(xen_ulong_t) * sizeof(xen_ulong_t) * 64)
-- 
1.7.2.5

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-09 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-09 18:08 [RFC PATCH 0/8] Xen: FIFO-based event channel ABI David Vrabel
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 1/8] debug: remove some event channel info from the 'i' and 'q' debug keys David Vrabel
2013-08-15 13:55   ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] evtchn: refactor low-level event channel port ops David Vrabel
2013-08-15 14:05   ` Jan Beulich
2013-09-06 14:25     ` David Vrabel
2013-09-06 14:55       ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 3/8] evtchn: add a hook to bind an event port to a VCPU David Vrabel
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 4/8] evtchn: use a per-domain variable for the max number of event channels David Vrabel
2013-08-15 14:09   ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 5/8] evtchn: dynamically allocate d->evtchn David Vrabel
2013-08-15 14:10   ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 6/8] evtchn: alter internal object handling scheme David Vrabel
2013-08-15 14:21   ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-15 15:46     ` David Vrabel
2013-08-16  7:14       ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-16 16:55   ` Wei Liu
2013-08-09 18:08 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2013-08-15 14:25   ` [PATCH 7/8] evtchn: add FIFO-based event channel ABI Jan Beulich
2013-08-09 18:08 ` [PATCH 8/8] evtchn: add FIFO-based event channel hypercalls and port ops David Vrabel
2013-08-16 16:33   ` Wei Liu
2013-08-19 10:32     ` David Vrabel
2013-08-19 10:46       ` Wei Liu
2013-08-23 10:33   ` Jan Beulich
2013-08-23 11:00     ` David Vrabel
2013-08-12 13:06 ` [RFC PATCH 0/8] Xen: FIFO-based event channel ABI George Dunlap
2013-08-12 13:49   ` David Vrabel
2013-08-16 16:55 ` Wei Liu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-03-19 21:00 [PATCH RFC " David Vrabel
2013-03-19 21:00 ` [PATCH 7/8] evtchn: add " David Vrabel
2013-03-20 10:32   ` Jan Beulich
2013-03-20 13:38     ` David Vrabel

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