Re: [patch V2 00/46] x86, PCI, XEN, genirq ...: Prepare for device MSI

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 07:43:28 EST


On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:41:48AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29 2020 at 16:03, Megha Dey wrote:
> > On 8/26/2020 4:16 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> #9 is obviously just for the folks interested in IMS
> >>
> >
> > I see that the tip tree (as of 9/29) has most of these patches but
> > notice that the DEV_MSI related patches
> >
> > haven't made it. I have tested the tip tree(x86/irq branch) with your
> > DEV_MSI infra patches and our IMS patches with the IDXD driver and was
>
> Your IMS patches? Why do you need something special again?
>
> > wondering if we should push out those patches as part of our patchset?
>
> As I don't have any hardware to test that, I was waiting for you and
> Jason to confirm that this actually works for the two different IMS
> implementations.

How urgently do you need this? The code looked good from what I
understood. It will be a while before we have all the parts to send an
actual patch though.

We might be able to put together a mockup just to prove it

Jason