Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 15/17] vmx: VT-d posted-interrupt core logic handling

["Wu, Feng" <feng.wu@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dario Faggioli [mailto:dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 12:59 AM
> To: Wu, Feng <feng.wu@xxxxxxxxx>; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Tian, Kevin <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>; Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>; George
> Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Andrew Cooper
> <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>; Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v9 15/17] vmx: VT-d posted-interrupt core 
> logic
> handling
> 
> On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 09:07 +0000, Wu, Feng wrote:
> > BTW, In the previous discussion, we will do the PI state adjustment
> > in vmx_do_resume, however, seems this is not a good place to do this,
> > since this function gets called only if the scheduling occurs, no
> > matter it switches to another vCPU or continue runs the current vCPU.
> > If no scheduling happens during "VM->Xen->VM", vmx-do_resume() will
> > not get called.
> >
> Mmm... When I first read this, it seemed to me to be a good thing, and
> a reason for actually putting your logic in there (that would avoid
> paying the price of going through it during every VMENTRY, which you
> were yourself hesitant about)!
> 
> So, maybe I'm missing/misremembering something. Just to be sure, can
> you tell me...
> 
> > So I put the PI state adjustment code in vmx_vmenter_helper(), if you
> > have any other good suggestions, please let me know, thanks a lot!
> >
> ... what is the reason(s) why you need to do the update even if no
> scheduling happened?
> 
> Looking at the code again, I think one reason may be to cope with when
> vcpu_block() is called, but then local_events_need_delivery() returns
> true, as shown here below:
> 
> void vcpu_block(void)
> {
>     struct vcpu *v = current;
> 
>     set_bit(_VPF_blocked, &v->pause_flags);
> 
>     arch_vcpu_block(v);                             // nv <--- 
> pi_wakeup_vector
> 
>     /* Check for events /after/ blocking: avoids wakeup waiting race. */
>     if ( local_events_need_delivery() )             // <=== TRUE
>         clear_bit(_VPF_blocked, &v->pause_flags);
>                                                     // we want nv == 
> posted_intr_vector,
>                                                        so we need 
> vmx_pi_state_change()
>                                                        to run, even if we're 
> not scheduling
> }
> 
> Is this the case?

Yes, that is the case, after arch_vcpu_block() is called, we don't
cancel it even if there are events to be delivered, so we need to check
whether the NV is the right value, if it isn't, which means after
after arch_vcpu_block(),local_events_need_delivery() check returns
true, so we need to adjust the PI state before VM-Entry. As Jan mentioned
before, we will check the value before actually update it atomically, so
I think it is okay from performance point of view.

Thanks,
Feng
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