Re: [PATCH v3 01/28] xhci: Add support to allocate several interrupters

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Hi Mathias,

On 3/13/2023 1:08 PM, Wesley Cheng wrote:
Hi Mathias,

On 3/10/2023 7:07 AM, Mathias Nyman wrote:
On 9.3.2023 1.57, Wesley Cheng wrote:
From: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Introduce xHCI APIs to allow for clients to allocate and free
interrupters.  This allocates an array of interrupters, which is based on
the max_interrupters parameter.  The primary interrupter is set as the
first entry in the array, and secondary interrupters following after.


I'm thinking about changing this offloading xHCI API
xhci should be aware and keep track of which devices and endpoints that
are offloaded to avoid device getting offloaded twice, avoid xhci driver
from queuing anything itself for these, and act properly if the offloaded
device or entire host is removed.

So first thing audio side would need to do do is register/create an
offload entry for the device using the API:

struct xhci_sideband *xhci_sideband_register(struct usb_device *udev)

(xHCI specs calls offload sideband)
Then endpoints and interrupters can be added and removed from this
offload entry

I have some early thoughts written as non-compiling code in:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mnyman/xhci.git feature_interrupters https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mnyman/xhci.git/log/?h=feature_interrupters

Let me know what you think about this.


The concept/framework you built looks good to me.  Makes sense to have XHCI better maintain the offloading users.  One thing I would request is to move xhci-sideband.h to the include directory since the class driver levels would need to be able to reference the structure and APIs you've exposed.

I have yet to try it with our implementation, but I'll work on plugging it in and fix any issues I see along the way.

Sorry for the late reply on some of the efforts on adding your new xhci-sideband driver.

I saw your comments with respect to building the SG table for rings with multiple segments, ie stream xfer rings. I had tried some things to achieve the page links, but after reviewing some of the Linux memory APIs, I'm not sure we can achieve it. This is because we're not simply relying on the direct DMA ops here to build the SG table. In the IOMMU mapped cases, it calls in iommu_dma_get_sgtable(), which has some convoluted logic to build the sgt.

Instead of allocating one sgt with multiple sgls (based on # of ring segments), would it make sense to just build multiple sgts for each ring segment? The vendor class driver could still fetch the required memory information to translate each sgt to a physical address and ring segment linking can happen within the external DSP if it supports it.

Thanks
Wesley Cheng



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