Re: [v8 3/9] iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Jun 02 2015 - 09:59:21 EST


On Wed, 27 May 2015, Feng Wu wrote:
> + /* stop posting interrupts, back to remapping mode */
> + if (!vcpu_info) {
> + modify_irte(&ir_data->irq_2_iommu, &ir_data->irte_entry);
> + } else {
> + vcpu_pi_info = (struct vcpu_data *)vcpu_info;
> +
> + /*
> + * "ir_data->irte_entry" saves the remapped format of IRTE,
> + * which being a cached irte is still updated when setting
> + * the affinity even when we are in posted mode. So this make

s/make/makes/

> + * it possible to switch back to remapped mode from posted mode,
> + * we can just set "ir_data->irte_entry" to hardware for that
> + * purpose. Here we store the posted format of IRTE in another
> + * new member "ir_data->irte_pi_entry" to not corrupt

Remove the 'another new member' please. That member is not longer new
once that patch is applied.

Now there is another question. Are we actually using that pi_entry
cached value for anything else than this code here? If not, we can do
this on the stack and avoid the extra storage in ir_data.

Thanks,

tglx
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