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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen: fix interrupt routing

Am 14.06.2011 um 14:17 schrieb Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 10:25 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 31.05.2011, at 13:05, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 28 May 2011, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 26.05.2011, at 17:48, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> xen: fix interrupt routing
>>>>> 
>>>>> - remove i440FX-xen and i440fx_write_config_xen
>>>>> we don't need to intercept pci config writes to i440FX anymore;
>>>> 
>>>> Why not? In which version? Did anything below change? What about compat 
>>>> code? Older hypervisor versions?
>>> 
>>> Nothing changed, I think it was a genuine mistake in the original patch
>>> series: the intention was to catch the pci config writes to 0x60-0x63 to
>>> reprogram the xen pci link routes accordingly (see
>>> xen_piix_pci_write_config_client).  If I am not mistaken a similar thing
>>> is done by non-Xen Qemu in piix3_update_irq_levels.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>> - introduce PIIX3-xen and piix3_write_config_xen
>>>>> we do need to intercept pci config write to the PCI-ISA bridge to update
>>>>> the PCI link routing;
>>>>> 
>>>>> - set the number of PIIX3-xen interrupts lines to 128;
>>>>> 
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> 
>>>>> diff --git a/hw/pc.h b/hw/pc.h
>>>>> index 0dcbee7..6d5730b 100644
>>>>> --- a/hw/pc.h
>>>>> +++ b/hw/pc.h
>>>>> @@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ struct PCII440FXState;
>>>>> typedef struct PCII440FXState PCII440FXState;
>>>>> 
>>>>> PCIBus *i440fx_init(PCII440FXState **pi440fx_state, int *piix_devfn, 
>>>>> qemu_irq *pic, ram_addr_t ram_size);
>>>>> -PCIBus *i440fx_xen_init(PCII440FXState **pi440fx_state, int 
>>>>> *piix3_devfn, qemu_irq *pic, ram_addr_t ram_size);
>>>>> void i440fx_init_memory_mappings(PCII440FXState *d);
>>>>> 
>>>>> /* piix4.c */
>>>>> diff --git a/hw/pc_piix.c b/hw/pc_piix.c
>>>>> index 9a22a8a..ba198de 100644
>>>>> --- a/hw/pc_piix.c
>>>>> +++ b/hw/pc_piix.c
>>>>> @@ -124,11 +124,7 @@ static void pc_init1(ram_addr_t ram_size,
>>>>>   isa_irq = qemu_allocate_irqs(isa_irq_handler, isa_irq_state, 24);
>>>>> 
>>>>>   if (pci_enabled) {
>>>>> -        if (!xen_enabled()) {
>>>>> -            pci_bus = i440fx_init(&i440fx_state, &piix3_devfn, isa_irq, 
>>>>> ram_size);
>>>>> -        } else {
>>>>> -            pci_bus = i440fx_xen_init(&i440fx_state, &piix3_devfn, 
>>>>> isa_irq, ram_size);
>>>>> -        }
>>>>> +        pci_bus = i440fx_init(&i440fx_state, &piix3_devfn, isa_irq, 
>>>>> ram_size);
>>>>>   } else {
>>>>>       pci_bus = NULL;
>>>>>       i440fx_state = NULL;
>>>>> diff --git a/hw/piix_pci.c b/hw/piix_pci.c
>>>>> index 7f1c4cc..3d73a42 100644
>>>>> --- a/hw/piix_pci.c
>>>>> +++ b/hw/piix_pci.c
>>>>> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ typedef PCIHostState I440FXState;
>>>>> 
>>>>> #define PIIX_NUM_PIC_IRQS       16      /* i8259 * 2 */
>>>>> #define PIIX_NUM_PIRQS          4ULL    /* PIRQ[A-D] */
>>>>> +#define XEN_PIIX_NUM_PIRQS      128ULL
>>>>> #define PIIX_PIRQC              0x60
>>>>> 
>>>>> typedef struct PIIX3State {
>>>>> @@ -78,6 +79,8 @@ struct PCII440FXState {
>>>>> #define I440FX_SMRAM    0x72
>>>>> 
>>>>> static void piix3_set_irq(void *opaque, int pirq, int level);
>>>>> +static void piix3_write_config_xen(PCIDevice *dev,
>>>>> +                               uint32_t address, uint32_t val, int len);
>>>>> 
>>>>> /* return the global irq number corresponding to a given device irq
>>>>>  pin. We could also use the bus number to have a more precise
>>>>> @@ -173,13 +176,6 @@ static void i440fx_write_config(PCIDevice *dev,
>>>>>   }
>>>>> }
>>>>> 
>>>>> -static void i440fx_write_config_xen(PCIDevice *dev,
>>>>> -                                    uint32_t address, uint32_t val, int 
>>>>> len)
>>>>> -{
>>>>> -    xen_piix_pci_write_config_client(address, val, len);
>>>>> -    i440fx_write_config(dev, address, val, len);
>>>>> -}
>>>>> -
>>>>> static int i440fx_load_old(QEMUFile* f, void *opaque, int version_id)
>>>>> {
>>>>>   PCII440FXState *d = opaque;
>>>>> @@ -267,8 +263,17 @@ static PCIBus *i440fx_common_init(const char 
>>>>> *device_name,
>>>>>   d = pci_create_simple(b, 0, device_name);
>>>>>   *pi440fx_state = DO_UPCAST(PCII440FXState, dev, d);
>>>>> 
>>>>> -    piix3 = DO_UPCAST(PIIX3State, dev,
>>>>> -                      pci_create_simple_multifunction(b, -1, true, 
>>>>> "PIIX3"));
>>>>> +    if (xen_enabled()) {
>>>>> +        piix3 = DO_UPCAST(PIIX3State, dev,
>>>>> +                pci_create_simple_multifunction(b, -1, true, 
>>>>> "PIIX3-xen"));
>>>>> +        pci_bus_irqs(b, xen_piix3_set_irq, xen_pci_slot_get_pirq,
>>>>> +                piix3, XEN_PIIX_NUM_PIRQS);
>>>> 
>>>> But with XEN_PIIX_NUM_PIRQS it's not a piix3 anymore, no? What's the 
>>>> reason behind this change?
>>> 
>>> It is still a piix3, but also provides non-legacy interrupt links to the
>>> IO-APIC.
>>> The four pins of each PCI device on the bus not only are routed to the
>>> normal four pirqs (programmed writing to 0x60-0x63, see above) but also
>>> they are connected to the IO-APIC directly.
>>> These additional routes can only be discovered through ACPI, so you need
>>> matching ACPI tables. We used to build the old ACPI tables like this:
>>> 
>>> /* PRTA: APIC routing table (via non-legacy IOAPIC GSIs). */
>>> printf("Name(PRTA, Package() {\n");
>>> for ( dev = 1; dev < 32; dev++ )
>>>   for ( intx = 0; intx < 4; intx++ ) /* INTA-D */
>>>       printf("Package(){0x%04xffff, %u, 0, %u},\n",
>>>              dev, intx, ((dev*4+dev/8+intx)&31)+16);
>>> printf("})\n");
>>> 
>> 
>> Interesting concept, but completely non-standard and very much
>> different from real hardware. Please at least add a comment there to
>> show readers that Xen is doing a hack which is not at all related to
>> how the PIIX really works.
> 
> Isn't this more a function of the "wires" on the motherboard than the
> PIIX specifically? i.e. this just encodes the permutation of the wires
> from the PCI slots into the IO-APIC input pins (bypassing the PIIX,
> which is only used for legacy ISA IRQs i.e. by non-APIC aware OSes)?

Interrupts with PCI work slightly different. PCI devices can map (themselves or 
by software) to one of 4 interrupt lines: INTA, INTB, INTC, INTD. These get 
converted using PCI host controller specific logic to 4 interrupt lines which 
then go into the IO-APIC.

The IO-APIC is a chip with a limited number of pins. IIRC it was 24, could be 
26 though.

I haven't seen a single case where PCI devices have a direct link to the 
IO-APIC. I also have not seen any PCI host controller that exports more than 4 
interrupts. Giving each PCI device its own line, on top of that more than ever 
could be in real hardware, is a plain hack IMHO.

Did this really give you actual performance/latency/scalability gains? I still 
think for devices that matter, we should go with MSI rather than deriving from 
real hw.


Alex

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