linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/MSI: Avoid torn updates to MSI pairs

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Date:   Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:48:48 -0800
From:   Evan Green <evgreen@...omium.org>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Rajat Jain <rajatja@...gle.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        x86@...nel.org, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] PCI/MSI: Avoid torn updates to MSI pairs

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 3:16 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
>
> Evan,
>
> Evan Green <evgreen@...omium.org> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 1:01 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Could you please add some instrumentation to see how often this stuff
> >> actually triggers spurious interrupts?
> >
> > In about 10 minutes of this script running, I got 142 hits. My script
> > can toggle the HT cpus on and off about twice per second.
> > Here's my diff (sorry it's mangled by gmail). If you're looking for
> > something else, let me know, or I can run a patch.
> >
> No, that's good data. Your testing is hiting the critical path and as
> you did not complain about negative side effects it seems to hold up to
> the expectations. I'm going to convert this to real patch with a
> proper changelog tomorrow.
>
> Thanks for your help!

Sounds good, please CC me on it and I'll be sure to test the final
result as well.
-Evan