Re: [PATCH V4 00/12] PCIe TPH and cache direct injection support

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On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 10:45:57AM -0500, Wei Huang wrote:
> On 9/4/24 15:20, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > To me, this series would make more sense if we squashed these
> > together:
> > 
> >   PCI: Introduce PCIe TPH support framework
> >   PCI: Add TPH related register definition
> >   PCI/TPH: Add pcie_enable_tph() to enable TPH
> >   PCI/TPH: Add pcie_disable_tph() to disable TPH
> >   PCI/TPH: Add save/restore support for TPH
> > 
> > These would add the "minimum viable functionality", e.g., enable TPH
> > just for Processing Hints, with no Steering Tag support at all.  Would
> > also include "pci=notph".
> 
> >   PCI/TPH: Add pcie_tph_set_st_entry() to set ST tag
> >   PCI/TPH: Add pcie_tph_get_cpu_st() to get ST tag
> > 
> > And squash these also to add Steering Tag support in a single commit,
> > including enhancing the save/restore.
> 
> Can you elaborate on save/restore enhancement? Assuming that the first
> combined patch will have save/restore support as suggested. Are you
> talking about the ST entries save/restore as the enhancements (see
> below), because the second combined patch deals with ST?
> 
>         st_entry = (u16 *)cap;
>         offset = PCI_TPH_BASE_SIZEOF;
> 	num_entries = get_st_table_size(pdev);
>         for (i = 0; i < num_entries; i++) {
>                 pci_write_config_word(pdev, pdev->tph_cap + offset,
>  	                              *st_entry++);
>                 offset += sizeof(u16);
> 	}

I meant that since the first patch knows nothing about ST, it would
save/restore TPH control but not the ST entries.

The second patch would add ST support and also add save/restore of the
ST entries.




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