Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr-pci: rework MSI/MSIX

[Anthony Liguori]

Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> writes:

> On 08/01/2013 04:02 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> On the sPAPR platform a guest allocates MSI/MSIX vectors via RTAS
>>> hypercalls which return global IRQ numbers to a guest so it only
>>> operates with those and never touches MSIMessage.
>>>
>>> Therefore MSIMessage handling is completely hidden in QEMU.
>>>
>>> Previously every sPAPR PCI host bridge implemented its own MSI window
>>> to catch msi_notify()/msix_notify() calls from QEMU devices (virtio-pci
>>> or vfio) and route them to the guest via qemu_pulse_irq().
>>> MSIMessage used to be encoded as:
>>>     .addr - address within the PHB MSI window;
>>>     .data - the device index on PHB plus vector number.
>>> The MSI MR write function translated this MSIMessage to a global IRQ
>>> number and called qemu_pulse_irq().
>>>
>>> However the total number of IRQs is not really big (at the moment it is
>>> 1024 IRQs starting from 4096) and even 16bit data field of MSIMessage
>>> seems to be enough to store an IRQ number there.
>>>
>>> This simplifies MSI handling in sPAPR PHB. Specifically, this does:
>>> 1. remove a MSI window from a PHB;
>>> 2. add a single memory region for all MSIs to sPAPREnvironment
>>> and spapr_pci_msi_init() to initialize it;
>>> 3. encode MSIMessage as:
>>>     * .addr - a fixed address of SPAPR_PCI_MSI_WINDOW==0x40000000000ULL;
>>>     * .data as an IRQ number.
>>> 4. change IRQ allocator to align first IRQ number in a block for MSI.
>>> MSI uses lower bits to specify the vector number so the first IRQ has to
>>> be aligned. MSIX does not need any special allocator though.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Does this actually fix any bug or is this just refactoring?  If it's the
>> later, it'll have to wait until after the 1.7 window opens up.
>
>
> This is refactoring which should make IRQFD enablement on spapr
> easier.

Okay, I'll apply it after hard freeze then.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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