linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Extend MAX_IRQ

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Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 08:55:06 +0800
From:   Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
To:     Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
Cc:     Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Tonny Lu <tonnylu@...cent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Extend MAX_IRQ_ROUTES to 4096

2018-04-19 22:09 GMT+08:00 Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>:
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:42:55 +0000
> Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...mail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:30:40 -0700
>>
>> Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>
>> >
>> > Our virtual machines make use of device assignment by configuring
>> > 12 NVMe disks for high I/O performance. Each NVMe device has 129
>> > MSI-X Table entries:
>> > Capabilities: [50] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=129 Masked-Vector table: BAR=0 offset=00002000
>> > The windows virtual machines fail to boot since they will map the number of
>> > MSI-table entries that the NVMe hardware reported to the bus to msi routing
>> > table, this will exceed the 1024. This patch extends MAX_IRQ_ROUTES to 4096,
>> > In the future this might be extended if needed.
>> >
>> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
>> > Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
>> > Cc: Tonny Lu <tonnylu@...cent.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Tonny Lu <tonnylu@...cent.com>
>> > ---
>> >  include/linux/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
>> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
>> > index 6930c63..815ae66 100644
>> > --- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
>> > +++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
>> > @@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ static inline int mmu_notifier_retry(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long mmu_seq)
>> >  #elif defined(CONFIG_ARM64)
>> >  #define KVM_MAX_IRQ_ROUTES 4096
>> >  #else
>> > -#define KVM_MAX_IRQ_ROUTES 1024
>> > +#define KVM_MAX_IRQ_ROUTES 4096
>> >  #endif
>> >
>> >  bool kvm_arch_can_set_irq_routing(struct kvm *kvm);
>>
>> So, this basically means we have 4096 everywhere, no?
>>
>> I suspect different architectures maybe extend to different limits again according to their requirements.
>
> Yes, but for now, we have the same everywhere (as you also bumped the
> limit on power and 32-bit arm, implicitly). If that's ok, we might as

I suspect they will have the same issue when configured as our
production environment, so v2 gets rid of the ifdeffey.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li