On 04/12/15 17:35, Ray Jui wrote:
> This patch adds PCIe MSI support for both PAXB and PAXC interfaces on
> all iProc based platforms
> 
> The iProc PCIe MSI support deploys an event queue based implementation.
> Each event queue is serviced by a GIC interrupt and can support up to 64
> MSI vectors. Host memory is allocated for the event queues, and each event
> queue consists of 64 word-sized entries. MSI data is written to the
> lower 16-bit of each entry, whereas the upper 16-bit of the entry is
> reserved for the controller for internal processing
> 
> Each event queue is tracked by a head pointer and tail pointer. Head
> pointer indicates the next entry in the event queue to be processed by
> the driver and is updated by the driver after processing is done.
> The controller uses the tail pointer as the next MSI data insertion
> point. The controller ensures MSI data is flushed to host memory before
> updating the tail pointer and then triggering the interrupt
> 
> MSI IRQ affinity is supported by evenly distributing the interrupts to
> each CPU core. MSI vector is moved from one GIC interrupt to another in
> order to steer to the target CPU
> 
> Therefore, the actual number of supported MSI vectors is:
> 
> M * 64 / N
> 
> where M denotes the number of GIC interrupts (event queues), and N
> denotes the number of CPU cores
> 
> This iProc event queue based MSI support should not be used with newer
> platforms with integrated MSI support in the GIC (e.g., giv2m or
> gicv3-its)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Vikram Prakash <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <[email protected]>

Good thing I didn't reply on v4!

Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <[email protected]>

        M.
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