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authorDexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>2022-11-05 01:29:53 +0300
committerWei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>2022-11-12 15:43:59 +0300
commitc234ba8042920fa83635808dc5673f36869ca280 (patch)
treebde9986dec312b1ae76153876cbf6e995b810282 /drivers/hv
parentb8a5376c321b4669f7ffabc708fd30c3970f3084 (diff)
downloadlinux-c234ba8042920fa83635808dc5673f36869ca280.tar.xz
PCI: hv: Only reuse existing IRTE allocation for Multi-MSI
Jeffrey added Multi-MSI support to the pci-hyperv driver by the 4 patches: 08e61e861a0e ("PCI: hv: Fix multi-MSI to allow more than one MSI vector") 455880dfe292 ("PCI: hv: Fix hv_arch_irq_unmask() for multi-MSI") b4b77778ecc5 ("PCI: hv: Reuse existing IRTE allocation in compose_msi_msg()") a2bad844a67b ("PCI: hv: Fix interrupt mapping for multi-MSI") It turns out that the third patch (b4b77778ecc5) causes a performance regression because all the interrupts now happen on 1 physical CPU (or two pCPUs, if one pCPU doesn't have enough vectors). When a guest has many PCI devices, it may suffer from soft lockups if the workload is heavy, e.g., see https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/20220804025104.15673-1-decui@microsoft.com/ Commit b4b77778ecc5 itself is good. The real issue is that the hypercall in hv_irq_unmask() -> hv_arch_irq_unmask() -> hv_do_hypercall(HVCALL_RETARGET_INTERRUPT...) only changes the target virtual CPU rather than physical CPU; with b4b77778ecc5, the pCPU is determined only once in hv_compose_msi_msg() where only vCPU0 is specified; consequently the hypervisor only uses 1 target pCPU for all the interrupts. Note: before b4b77778ecc5, the pCPU is determined twice, and when the pCPU is determined the second time, the vCPU in the effective affinity mask is used (i.e., it isn't always vCPU0), so the hypervisor chooses different pCPU for each interrupt. The hypercall will be fixed in future to update the pCPU as well, but that will take quite a while, so let's restore the old behavior in hv_compose_msi_msg(), i.e., don't reuse the existing IRTE allocation for single-MSI and MSI-X; for multi-MSI, we choose the vCPU in a round-robin manner for each PCI device, so the interrupts of different devices can happen on different pCPUs, though the interrupts of each device happen on some single pCPU. The hypercall fix may not be backported to all old versions of Hyper-V, so we want to have this guest side change forever (or at least till we're sure the old affected versions of Hyper-V are no longer supported). Fixes: b4b77778ecc5 ("PCI: hv: Reuse existing IRTE allocation in compose_msi_msg()") Co-developed-by: Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com> Co-developed-by: Carl Vanderlip <quic_carlv@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Carl Vanderlip <quic_carlv@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221104222953.11356-1-decui@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
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