Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751215AbaLROu7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2014 09:50:59 -0500 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:45076 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750994AbaLROu5 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2014 09:50:57 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,601,1413270000"; d="scan'208";a="656416240" From: "Zhang, Yang Z" To: "Wu, Feng" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "hpa@zytor.com" , "x86@kernel.org" , "gleb@kernel.org" , "pbonzini@redhat.com" , "dwmw2@infradead.org" , "joro@8bytes.org" , "alex.williamson@redhat.com" , "jiang.liu@linux.intel.com" CC: "eric.auger@linaro.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "Wu, Feng" Subject: RE: [v3 13/26] KVM: Define a new interface kvm_find_dest_vcpu() for VT-d PI Thread-Topic: [v3 13/26] KVM: Define a new interface kvm_find_dest_vcpu() for VT-d PI Thread-Index: AQHQFiCrJgBr1evklkuo8VNfnV0dX5yVdJYA Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:49:22 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1418397300-10870-1-git-send-email-feng.wu@intel.com> <1418397300-10870-14-git-send-email-feng.wu@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1418397300-10870-14-git-send-email-feng.wu@intel.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.239.127.40] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Feng Wu wrote on 2014-12-12: > This patch defines a new interface kvm_find_dest_vcpu for > VT-d PI, which can returns the destination vCPU of the > interrupt for guests. > > Since VT-d PI cannot handle broadcast/multicast interrupt, > Here we only handle Fixed and Lowest priority interrupts. > > The current method of handling guest lowest priority interrtups > is to use a counter 'apic_arb_prio' for each vCPU, we choose the > vCPU with smallest 'apic_arb_prio' and then increase it by 1. > However, for VT-d PI, we cannot re-use this, since we no longer > have control to 'apic_arb_prio' with posted interrupt direct > delivery by Hardware. > > Here, we introduce a similar way with 'apic_arb_prio' to handle guest > lowest priority interrtups when VT-d PI is used. Here is the ideas: - > Each vCPU has a counter 'round_robin_counter'. - When guests sets an > interrupts to lowest priority, we choose the vCPU with smallest > 'round_robin_counter' as the destination, then increase it. How this can work well? All subsequent interrupts are delivered to one vCPU? It shouldn't be the best solution, need more consideration. Also, I think you should take the apic_arb_prio into consider since the priority is for the whole vCPU not for one interrupt. Best regards, Yang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/