This is another resend as there has been no feedback since v4. Seems Jon has been MIA this past cycle so hopefully he appears on the list soon.
I've addressed the feedback so far and rebased on the latest kernel and would like this to be considered for merging this cycle.
The only outstanding issue I know of is that it still will not work with IDT hardware, but ntb_transport doesn't work with IDT hardware and there is still no sensible common infrastructure to support ntb_peer_mw_set_trans(). Thus, I decline to consider that complication in this patchset. However, I'll be happy to review work that adds this feature in the future.
Also, as the port number and resource index stuff is a bit complicated, I made a quick out of tree test fixture to ensure it's correct[1]. As an excerise I also wrote some test code[2] using the upcomming KUnit feature.
Logan
[1] https://repl.it/repls/ExcitingPresentFile [2] https://github.com/sbates130272/linux-p2pmem/commits/ntb_kunit
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Changes in v5:
* Rebased onto v5.2-rc1 (plus the patches in ntb-next)
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Changes in v4:
* Rebased onto v5.1-rc6 (No changes)
* Numerous grammar and spelling mistakes spotted by Bjorn
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Changes in v3:
* Rebased onto v5.1-rc1 (Dropped the first two patches as they have been merged, and cleaned up some minor conflicts in the PCI tree)
* Added a new patch (#3) to calculate logical port numbers that are port numbers from 0 to (number of ports - 1). This is then used in ntb_peer_resource_idx() to fix the issues brought up by Serge.
* Fixed missing __iomem and iowrite calls (as noticed by Serge)
* Added patch 10 which describes ntb_msi_test in the documentation file (as requested by Serge)
* A couple other minor nits and documentation fixes
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Changes in v2:
* Cleaned up the changes in intel_irq_remapping.c to make them less confusing and add a comment. (Per discussion with Jacob and Joerg)
* Fixed a nit from Bjorn and collected his Ack
* Added a Kconfig dependancy on CONFIG_PCI_MSI for CONFIG_NTB_MSI as the Kbuild robot hit a random config that didn't build without it.
* Worked in a callback for when the MSI descriptor changes so that the clients can resend the new address and data values to the peer. On my test system this was never necessary, but there may be other platforms where this can occur. I tested this by hacking in a path to rewrite the MSI descriptor when I change the cpu affinity of an IRQ. There's a bit of uncertainty over the latency of the change, but without hardware this can acctually occur on we can't test this. This was the result of a discussion with Dave.
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This patch series adds optional support for using MSI interrupts instead of NTB doorbells in ntb_transport. This is desirable seeing doorbells on current hardware are quite slow and therefore switching to MSI interrupts provides a significant performance gain. On switchtec hardware, a simple apples-to-apples comparison shows ntb_netdev/iperf numbers going from 3.88Gb/s to 14.1Gb/s when switching to MSI interrupts.
To do this, a couple changes are required outside of the NTB tree:
1) The IOMMU must know to accept MSI requests from aliased bused numbers seeing NTB hardware typically sends proxied request IDs through additional requester IDs. The first patch in this series adds support for the Intel IOMMU. A quirk to add these aliases for switchtec hardware was already accepted. See commit ad281ecf1c7d ("PCI: Add DMA alias quirk for Microsemi Switchtec NTB") for a description of NTB proxy IDs and why this is necessary.
2) NTB transport (and other clients) may often need more MSI interrupts than the NTB hardware actually advertises support for. However, seeing these interrupts will not be triggered by the hardware but through an NTB memory window, the hardware does not actually need support or need to know about them. Therefore we add the concept of Virtual MSI interrupts which are allocated just like any other MSI interrupt but are not programmed into the hardware's MSI table. This is done in Patch 2 and then made use of in Patch 3.
The remaining patches in this series add a library for dealing with MSI interrupts, a test client and finally support in ntb_transport.
The series is based off of v5.1-rc6 plus the patches in ntb-next. A git repo is available here:
https://github.com/sbates130272/linux-p2pmem/ ntb_transport_msi_v4
Thanks,
Logan
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Logan Gunthorpe (10): PCI/MSI: Support allocating virtual MSI interrupts PCI/switchtec: Add module parameter to request more interrupts NTB: Introduce helper functions to calculate logical port number NTB: Introduce functions to calculate multi-port resource index NTB: Rename ntb.c to support multiple source files in the module NTB: Introduce MSI library NTB: Introduce NTB MSI Test Client NTB: Add ntb_msi_test support to ntb_test NTB: Add MSI interrupt support to ntb_transport NTB: Describe the ntb_msi_test client in the documentation.
Documentation/ntb.txt | 27 ++ drivers/ntb/Kconfig | 11 + drivers/ntb/Makefile | 3 + drivers/ntb/{ntb.c => core.c} | 0 drivers/ntb/msi.c | 415 +++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c | 169 ++++++++- drivers/ntb/test/Kconfig | 9 + drivers/ntb/test/Makefile | 1 + drivers/ntb/test/ntb_msi_test.c | 433 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/pci/msi.c | 54 ++- drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c | 12 +- include/linux/msi.h | 8 + include/linux/ntb.h | 196 ++++++++++- include/linux/pci.h | 9 + tools/testing/selftests/ntb/ntb_test.sh | 54 ++- 15 files changed, 1386 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) rename drivers/ntb/{ntb.c => core.c} (100%) create mode 100644 drivers/ntb/msi.c create mode 100644 drivers/ntb/test/ntb_msi_test.c
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