Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: hv: Fix multi-MSI to allow more than one MSI vector

From: Wei Liu
Date: Mon Apr 25 2022 - 11:50:04 EST


On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 03:33:44PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 08:13:22AM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> > On 4/13/2022 7:36 AM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> > > If the allocation of multiple MSI vectors for multi-MSI fails in the core
> > > PCI framework, the framework will retry the allocation as a single MSI
> > > vector, assuming that meets the min_vecs specified by the requesting
> > > driver.
> > >
> > > Hyper-V advertises that multi-MSI is supported, but reuses the VECTOR
> > > domain to implement that for x86. The VECTOR domain does not support
> > > multi-MSI, so the alloc will always fail and fallback to a single MSI
> > > allocation.
> > >
> > > In short, Hyper-V advertises a capability it does not implement.
> > >
> > > Hyper-V can support multi-MSI because it coordinates with the hypervisor
> > > to map the MSIs in the IOMMU's interrupt remapper, which is something the
> > > VECTOR domain does not have. Therefore the fix is simple - copy what the
> > > x86 IOMMU drivers (AMD/Intel-IR) do by removing
> > > X86_IRQ_ALLOC_CONTIGUOUS_VECTORS after calling the VECTOR domain's
> > > pci_msi_prepare().
> > >
> > > Fixes: 4daace0d8ce8 ("PCI: hv: Add paravirtual PCI front-end for Microsoft Hyper-V VMs")
> > > Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> >
> > Ping?
> >
> > I don't see this in -next, nor have I seen any replies. It is possible I
> > have missed some kind of update, but currently I'm wondering if this change
> > is progressing or not. If there is some kind of process used in this area,
> > I'm not familiar with it, so I would appreciate an introduction.
>
> I expect the PCI maintainers to pick this up. If I don't see this picked
> up in this week I will apply it to hyperv-next.

Actually I will pick this up via hyperv-next, because there is another
series which will also touch this driver but at the some time depend on
vmbus changes. I can fix up any potential conflicts easily.

Thanks,
Wei.