Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752681AbaLSXtG (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:49:06 -0500 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:5047 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751316AbaLSXtE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:49:04 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,862,1389772800"; d="scan'208";a="431392508" From: "Wu, Feng" To: Paolo Bonzini , "Zhang, Yang Z" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , "x86@kernel.org" , Gleb Natapov , "dwmw2@infradead.org" , "joro@8bytes.org" , Alex Williamson , Jiang Liu CC: "iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , KVM list , Eric Auger , "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: AQHQG4NHB9IPTEr8TE6SOwjUA8VGXpyXlELg Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:48:50 +0000 Message-ID: References: <1418397300-10870-1-git-send-email-feng.wu@intel.com> <1418397300-10870-14-git-send-email-feng.wu@intel.com> <549307A5.3060305@redhat.com> <5494131E.9030505@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <5494131E.9030505@redhat.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 > -----Original Message----- > From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:paolo.bonzini@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Paolo > Bonzini > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 7:59 PM > To: Wu, Feng; Paolo Bonzini; Zhang, Yang Z; Thomas Gleixner; Ingo Molnar; H. > Peter Anvin; x86@kernel.org; Gleb Natapov; dwmw2@infradead.org; > joro@8bytes.org; Alex Williamson; Jiang Liu > Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; KVM list; > Eric Auger > Subject: Re: [v3 13/26] KVM: Define a new interface kvm_find_dest_vcpu() for > VT-d PI > > > > On 19/12/2014 02:30, Wu, Feng wrote: > >>> How this can work well? All subsequent interrupts are delivered to > >>> one vCPU? It shouldn't be the best solution, need more consideration. > >> > >> Well, it's a hardware limitation. The alternative (which is easy to > >> implement) is to only do PI for single-CPU interrupts. This should work > >> well for multiqueue NICs (and of course for UP guests :)), so perhaps > >> it's a good idea to only support that as a first attempt. > >> > >> Paolo > > > > Paolo, what do you mean by "single-CPU interrupts"? Do you mean we don't > > support lowest priority interrupts for PI? But Linux OS uses lowest priority > > for most of the case? If so, we can hardly get benefit from this feature for > > Linux guest OS. > > You can post lowest priority interrupts if they are delivered to a > single CPU, in which case they are effectively fixed priority. > > If they are broadcast to multiple CPUs, do not post them. > > Paolo In my understanding, lowest priority interrupts are always delivered to a Single CPU, we need to find the right destination CPU from the cpumask. This is what I do in this patch. Did I misunderstanding something in your Comments? Thanks a lot! Actually, we don't support posting broadcast/multicast interrupts, because the interrupt is associated with one Posted-interrupts descriptor, then one vCPU. Thanks, Feng -- 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/