On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:25:52PM +0100, Eric Auger wrote: > On 01/29/2016 08:33 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > >>> We know that x86 handles MSI vectors specially, so there is some > >>> hardware that helps the situation. It's not just that x86 has a fixed > >>> range for MSI, it's how it manages that range when interrupt remapping > >>> hardware is enabled. A device table indexed by source-ID references a > >>> per device table indexed by data from the MSI write itself. So we get > >>> much, much finer granularity, > >> About the granularity, I think ARM GICv3 now provides a similar > >> capability with GICv3 ITS (interrupt translation service). Along with > >> the MSI MSG write transaction, the device outputs a DeviceID conveyed on > >> the bus. This DeviceID (~ your source-ID) enables to index a device > >> table. The entry in the device table points to a DeviceId interrupt > >> translation table indexed by the EventID found in the msi msg. So the > >> entry in the interrupt translation table eventually gives you the > >> eventual interrupt ID targeted by the MSI MSG. > >> This translation capability if not available in GICv2M though, ie. the > >> one I am currently using. > >> > >> Those tables currently are built by the ITS irqchip (irq-gic-v3-its.c) That's right. GICv3/ITS disambiguates the interrupt source using the DeviceID, which for PCI is derived from the Requester ID of the endpoint. GICv2m is less flexible and requires a separate physical frame per guest to achieve isolation. Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
