The Intel Volume Management Device acts similar to a PCI-to-PCI bridge in that
it changes downstream devices' requester-ids to its own. As VMD supports PCIe
devices, it has its own MSI/X table and transmits child device MSI/X by
remapping child device MSI/X and handling like a demultiplexer.
Some newer VMD devices (Icelake Server and client) have an option to bypass the
VMD MSI/X remapping table. This allows for better performance scaling as the
child device MSI/X won't be limited by VMD's MSI/X count and IRQ handler.
It's expected that most users don't want MSI/X remapping when they can get
better performance without this limitation. This set includes some long overdue
cleanup of overgrown VMD code and introduces the MSI/X remapping disable.
Applies on top of e3beca48a45b ("irqdomain/treewide: Keep firmware node
unconditionally allocated") and ec0160891e38 ("irqdomain/treewide: Free
firmware node after domain removal") in tip/urgent
Jon Derrick (6):
PCI: vmd: Create physical offset helper
PCI: vmd: Create bus offset configuration helper
PCI: vmd: Create IRQ Domain configuration helper
PCI: vmd: Create IRQ allocation helper
x86/apic/msi: Use Real PCI DMA device when configuring IRTE
PCI: vmd: Disable MSI/X remapping when possible
arch/x86/kernel/apic/msi.c | 2 +-
drivers/pci/controller/vmd.c | 344 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
2 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)
base-commit: ec0160891e387f4771f953b888b1fe951398e5d9
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2.27.0
Hi Lorenzo,
On Tue, 2020-07-28 at 13:49 -0600, Jon Derrick wrote:
> The Intel Volume Management Device acts similar to a PCI-to-PCI bridge in that
> it changes downstream devices' requester-ids to its own. As VMD supports PCIe
> devices, it has its own MSI/X table and transmits child device MSI/X by
> remapping child device MSI/X and handling like a demultiplexer.
>
> Some newer VMD devices (Icelake Server and client) have an option to bypass the
> VMD MSI/X remapping table. This allows for better performance scaling as the
> child device MSI/X won't be limited by VMD's MSI/X count and IRQ handler.
>
> It's expected that most users don't want MSI/X remapping when they can get
> better performance without this limitation. This set includes some long overdue
> cleanup of overgrown VMD code and introduces the MSI/X remapping disable.
>
> Applies on top of e3beca48a45b ("irqdomain/treewide: Keep firmware node
> unconditionally allocated") and ec0160891e38 ("irqdomain/treewide: Free
> firmware node after domain removal") in tip/urgent
>
>
> Jon Derrick (6):
> PCI: vmd: Create physical offset helper
> PCI: vmd: Create bus offset configuration helper
> PCI: vmd: Create IRQ Domain configuration helper
> PCI: vmd: Create IRQ allocation helper
> x86/apic/msi: Use Real PCI DMA device when configuring IRTE
> PCI: vmd: Disable MSI/X remapping when possible
>
> arch/x86/kernel/apic/msi.c | 2 +-
> drivers/pci/controller/vmd.c | 344 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> 2 files changed, 224 insertions(+), 122 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: ec0160891e387f4771f953b888b1fe951398e5d9
Gentle reminder. Please don't forget about this.
We have a few more patches coming soon that I'd prefer to stage upon
this set.