Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/acpi: don't ignore I/O APICs justbecause there's no local APIC

[ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman)]

Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Eric W. Biederman<ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>> "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>>>>> Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> 19.06.09 07:32 >>>
>>>>doesn't XEN support per cpu irq vector?
>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>>>got sth from XEN 3.3 / SLES 11
>>>>
>>>>igb 0000:81:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 95 (level, low) -> IRQ 95
>>>>igb 0000:81:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
>>>>igb 0000:81:00.0: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Connection
>>>>igb 0000:81:00.0: eth9: (PCIe:2.5Gb/s:Width x4) 00:21:28:3a:d8:0e
>>>>igb 0000:81:00.0: eth9: PBA No: ffffff-0ff
>>>>igb 0000:81:00.0: Using MSI-X interrupts. 4 rx queue(s), 4 tx queue(s)
>>>>vendor=8086 device=3420
>>>>(XEN) irq.c:847: dom0: invalid pirq 94 or vector -28
>>>>igb 0000:81:00.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 94 (level, low) -> IRQ 94
>>>>igb 0000:81:00.1: setting latency timer to 64
>>>>(XEN) physdev.c:87: dom0: map irq with wrong vector -28
>>>>map irq failed
>>>>(XEN) physdev.c:87: dom0: map irq with wrong vector -28
>>>>map irq failed
>>>>
>>>>the system need a lot of MSI-X normally.. with current mainline tree
>>>>kernel, it will need about 360 irq...
>>>
>>> Do you mean 360 connected devices, or just 360 IO-APIC pins (most of
>>> which are usually unused)? In the latter case, devices using MSI (i.e. not
>>> using high numbered IO-APIC pins) should work, while devices connected
>>> to IO-APIC pins numbered 256 and higher won't work in SLE11 as-is.
>>> This limitation got fixed recently in the 3.5-unstable tree, though. The
>>> 256 active vectors limit, however, continues to exist, so the former case
>>> would still not be supported by Xen.
>
> 5 io-apic controllers, so total pins like 5x24
>
>>
>> Good question. ÂI know YH had a system a few years ago that exceeded 256 
>> vectors.
> that was in SimNow.
>
> This time is real.
> think about system: 24 pcie cards and every one has two functions. and
> one function will use 16 or 20 MSIX
> like 24 * 2 * 16

I'm not too surprised.  I saw the writing on the wall when I implement
per irq vector, and MSIX was one the likely candidates.

I'm curious what kind of pcie card do you have plugged in?  Looks like
you have a irq or two per cpu.

Eric

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