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Date:   Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:38:42 -0700
From:   Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>
To:     Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Cc:     Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>,
        Kyung Min Park <kyung.min.park@intel.com>,
        Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
        iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
        Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com>,
        Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com>,
        Russ Anderson <russ.anderson@hpe.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iommu/vt-d: Make DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED a config setting
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On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:13:09AM -0500, Steve Wahl wrote:
> To support up to 64 sockets with 10 DMAR units each (640), make the
> value of DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED adjustable by a config variable,
> CONFIG_DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED, and make it's default 1024 when MAXSMP is
> set.
> 
> If the available hardware exceeds DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED (previously set
> to MAX_IO_APICS, or 128), it causes these messages: "DMAR: Failed to
> allocate seq_id", "DMAR: Parse DMAR table failure.", and "x2apic: IRQ
> remapping doesn't support X2APIC mode x2apic disabled"; and the system
> fails to boot properly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
> ---
> 
> Note that we could not find a reason for connecting
> DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED to MAX_IO_APICS as was done previously.  Perhaps
> it seemed like the two would continue to match on earlier processors.
> There doesn't appear to be kernel code that assumes that the value of
> one is related to the other.
> 
> v2: Make this value a config option, rather than a fixed constant.  The default
> values should match previous configuration except in the MAXSMP case.  Keeping the
> value at a power of two was requested by Kevin Tian.
> 
>  drivers/iommu/intel/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
>  include/linux/dmar.h        | 6 +-----
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 

Baolu do you have this queued up for v5.20? Also do you have a public repo where
you keep the vt-d changes before sending Joerg the patches for a release?

Regards,
Jerry