Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] Add VFIO mediated device support and IMS support for the idxd driver.

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Hi Jason,

On 5/3/2020 3:22 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 03:31:51PM -0700, Dey, Megha wrote:
This has been my concern reviewing the implementation. IMS needs more
than one in-tree user to validate degrees of freedom in the api. I had
been missing a second "in-tree user" to validate the scope of the
flexibility that was needed.

IMS is too narrowly specified.

All platforms that support MSI today can support IMS. It is simply a
way for the platform to give the driver an addr/data pair that triggers
an interrupt when a posted write is performed to that pair.


Well, yes and no. IMS requires interrupt remapping in addition to the
dynamic nature of IRQ allocation.

You've mentioned remapping a few times, but I really can't understand
why it has anything to do with platform_msi or IMS..

So after some internal discussions, we have concluded that IMS has no linkage with Interrupt remapping, IR is just a platform concept. IMS is just a name Intel came up with, all it really means is device managed addr/data writes to generate interrupts. Technically we can call something IMS even if device has its own location to store interrupts in non-pci standard mechanism, much like platform-msi indeed. We simply need to extend platform-msi to its address some of its shortcomings: increase number of interrupts to > 2048, enable dynamic allocation of interrupts, add mask/unmask callbacks in addition to write_msg etc. FWIW, even MSI can be IMS with rules on how to manage the addr/data writes following pci sig .. its just that.

I will be sending out an email shortly outlining the new design for IMS (A.K.A platform-msi part 2) and what are the improvements we want to add to the already existing platform-msi infrastructure.

Thank you so much for your comments, it helped us iron out some of these details :)


Jason




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