linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/22] genirq/msi, PCI/MSI: Spring cleaning

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Date:   Sun, 28 Nov 2021 12:15:03 +0100
From:   Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>, Marc Zygnier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Megha Dey <megha.dey@...el.com>,
        Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, ath11k@...ts.infradead.org,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/22] genirq/msi, PCI/MSI: Spring cleaning - Part 1

On 27.11.21 02:18, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The [PCI] MSI code has gained quite some warts over time. A recent
> discussion unearthed a shortcoming: the lack of support for expanding
> PCI/MSI-X vectors after initialization of MSI-X.
> 
> PCI/MSI-X has no requirement to setup all vectors when MSI-X is enabled in
> the device. The non-used vectors have just to be masked in the vector
> table. For PCI/MSI this is not possible because the number of vectors
> cannot be changed after initialization.
> 
> The PCI/MSI code, but also the core MSI irq domain code are built around
> the assumption that all required vectors are installed at initialization
> time and freed when the device is shut down by the driver.
> 
> Supporting dynamic expansion at least for MSI-X is important for VFIO so
> that the host side interrupts for passthrough devices can be installed on
> demand.
> 
> This is the first part of a large (total 101 patches) series which
> refactors the [PCI]MSI infrastructure to make runtime expansion of MSI-X
> vectors possible. The last part (10 patches) provide this functionality.
> 
> The first part is mostly a cleanup which consolidates code, moves the PCI
> MSI code into a separate directory and splits it up into several parts.
> 
> No functional change intended except for patch 2/N which changes the
> behaviour of pci_get_vector()/affinity() to get rid of the assumption that
> the provided index is the "index" into the descriptor list instead of using
> it as the actual MSI[X] index as seen by the hardware. This would break
> users of sparse allocated MSI-X entries, but non of them use these
> functions.
> 
> This series is based on 5.16-rc2 and also available via git:
> 
>       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/devel.git msi-v1-part-1

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