Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] genirq/vfio: Introduce update_irq_devid and optimize VFIO irq ops

[luoben]

å 2019/8/20 äå4:51, Alex Williamson åé:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:02:58 +0800
> Ben Luo <luoben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Currently, VFIO takes a lot of free-then-request-irq actions whenever
> > a VM (with device passthru via VFIO) sets irq affinity or mask/unmask
> > irq. Those actions only change the cookie data of irqaction or even
> > change nothing. The free-then-request-irq not only adds more latency,
> > but also increases the risk of losing interrupt, which may lead to a
> > VM hung forever in waiting for IO completion
> What guest environment is generating this?  Typically I don't see that
> Windows or Linux guests bounce the interrupt configuration much.
> Thanks,
>
> Alex

By tracing centos5u8 on host, I found it keep masking and unmasking 
interrupt like this:

[1566032533709879] index:28 irte_hi:000000010004a601 
irte_lo:adb54bc000b98001
[1566032533711242] index:28 irte_hi:0000000000000000 
irte_lo:0000000000000000
[1566032533711258] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533711269] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533711291] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533711321] index:28 irte_hi:0000000000000000 
irte_lo:0000000000000000
[1566032533711340] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533711361] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533711376] index:28 irte_hi:000000010004a601 
irte_lo:adb54bc000b98001
[1566032533713368] index:28 irte_hi:0000000000000000 
irte_lo:0000000000000000
[1566032533713385] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533713396] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533713416] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533713447] index:28 irte_hi:0000000000000000 
irte_lo:0000000000000000
[1566032533713464] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533713485] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533713499] index:28 irte_hi:000000010004a601 
irte_lo:adb54bc000b98001
[1566032533718855] index:28 irte_hi:0000000000000000 
irte_lo:0000000000000000
[1566032533718871] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533718882] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533718902] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533718932] index:28 irte_hi:0000000000000000 
irte_lo:0000000000000000
[1566032533718949] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533718969] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533718984] index:28 irte_hi:000000010004a601 
irte_lo:adb54bc000b98001
[1566032533719873] index:28 irte_hi:0000000000000000 
irte_lo:0000000000000000
[1566032533719889] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533719900] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533719921] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533719954] index:28 irte_hi:0000000000000000 
irte_lo:0000000000000000
[1566032533719971] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533719992] index:28 irte_hi:000000000004a601 
irte_lo:00003fff00ac002d
[1566032533720007] index:28 irte_hi:000000010004a601 
irte_lo:adb54bc000b98001

"[1566032533720007]" is timestamp in Îs, so centos5u8 tiggers 30+ irte 
modification within 10ms

Thanks,

ÂÂÂ Ben

> > This patchset solved the issue by:
> > Patch 2 introduces update_irq_devid to only update dev_id of irqaction
> > Patch 3 make use of update_irq_devid and optimize irq operations in VFIO
> >
> > changes from v2:
> >   - reformat to avoid quoted string split across lines and etc.
> >
> > changes from v1:
> >   - add Patch 1 to enhance error recovery etc. in free irq per tglx's comments
> >   - enhance error recovery code and debugging info in update_irq_devid
> >   - use __must_check in external referencing of update_irq_devid
> >   - use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for update_irq_devid
> >   - reformat code of patch 3 for better readability
> >
> > Ben Luo (3):
> >    genirq: enhance error recovery code in free irq
> >    genirq: introduce update_irq_devid()
> >    vfio_pci: make use of update_irq_devid and optimize irq ops
> >
> >   drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >   include/linux/interrupt.h         |   3 ++
> >   kernel/irq/manage.c               | 110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> >   3 files changed, 164 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)