linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] uio: add MSI/MSI-X support to uio_pci

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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2015 21:27:42 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@...udius-systems.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hjk@...sjkoch.de, corbet@....net,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, bruce.richardson@...el.com,
	avi@...udius-systems.com, gleb@...udius-systems.com,
	stephen@...workplumber.org, alexander.duyck@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] uio: add MSI/MSI-X support to uio_pci_generic
 driver

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 08:17:35PM +0300, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
> This series add support for MSI and MSI-X interrupts to uio_pci_generic driver.
> 
> Currently uio_pci_generic demands INT#x interrupts source be available. However
> there are devices that simply don't have INT#x capability, for instance SR-IOV
> VF devices that simply don't have INT#x capability. For such devices
> uio_pci_generic will simply fail (more specifically its probe() will fail).
> 
> When IOMMU is either not available (e.g. Amazon EC2) or not acceptable due to
> performance overhead and thus VFIO is not an option users that develop
> user-space drivers are left without any option but to develop some proprietary
> UIO drivers (e.g. igb_uio driver in Intel's DPDK) just to be able to use UIO
> infrastructure.
> 
> This series provides a generic solution for this problem while preserving the
> original behaviour for devices for which the original uio_pci_generic had worked
> before (i.e. INT#x will be used by default).
> 
> New in v5:
>    - Expanded the commitlog on PATCH1.

Looks like you didn't attempt to address any of my review comments.
I don't intend to review this until you do.

> New in v4:
>    - Use portable __u32 and __s32 types from asm/types.h for
>      defining uio_pci_generic_irq_set fields.
>    - Use proper _IO macros for defining read and write ioctl()
>      commands.
>    - Moved bars mapping setting into a separate patch.
>    - Update uio_pci_generic example in uio-howto.tmpl.
> 
> New in v3:
>    - Add __iomem qualifier to temp buffer receiving ioremap value.  
>  
> New in v2:
>    - Added #include <linux/uaccess.h> to uio_pci_generic.c
> 
> 
> Vlad Zolotarov (4):
>   uio: add ioctl support
>   uio_pci_generic: properly initialize PCI bars mappings towards UIO
>   uio_pci_generic: add MSI/MSI-X support
>   Documentation: update uio-howto
> 
>  Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 139 ++++++++++--
>  drivers/uio/uio.c                    |  15 ++
>  drivers/uio/uio_pci_generic.c        | 409 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  include/linux/uio_driver.h           |   3 +
>  include/uapi/linux/uio_pci_generic.h |  51 +++++
>  5 files changed, 574 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/uio_pci_generic.h
> 
> -- 
> 2.1.0
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