linux-kernel - Re: [patch V2 00/46] x86, PCI, XEN, genirq ...: Prepare for device MSI

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Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:20:52 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc:     "Dey\, Megha" <megha.dey@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Jon Derrick <jonathan.derrick@...el.com>,
        Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@....com>,
        Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>,
        Russ Anderson <rja@....com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
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        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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        Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        ravi.v.shankar@...el.com
Subject: Re: [patch V2 00/46] x86, PCI, XEN, genirq ...: Prepare for device MSI

On Wed, Sep 30 2020 at 08:43, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:41:48AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 29 2020 at 16:03, Megha Dey wrote:
>> > On 8/26/2020 4:16 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> >> #9	is obviously just for the folks interested in IMS
>> >>
>> >
>> > I see that the tip tree (as of 9/29) has most of these patches but 
>> > notice that the DEV_MSI related patches
>> >
>> > haven't made it. I have tested the tip tree(x86/irq branch) with your
>> > DEV_MSI infra patches and our IMS patches with the IDXD driver and was
>> 
>> Your IMS patches? Why do you need something special again?
>> 
>> > wondering if we should push out those patches as part of our patchset?
>> 
>> As I don't have any hardware to test that, I was waiting for you and
>> Jason to confirm that this actually works for the two different IMS
>> implementations.
>
> How urgently do you need this? The code looked good from what I
> understood. It will be a while before we have all the parts to send an
> actual patch though.

I personally do not need it at all :) Megha might have different
thoughts... 

> We might be able to put together a mockup just to prove it

If that makes Megha's stuff going that would of course be appreciated,
but we can defer the IMS_QUEUE part for later. It's orthogonal to the
IMS_ARRAY stuff.

Thanks,

        tglx