From: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10 v2] iommu/amd: lock splitting & GFP_KERNEL allocation
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:49:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1521316194.3722.74.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180316201836.7864-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de>
On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 21:18 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> The goal here is to make the memory allocation in get_irq_table() not
> with disabled interrupts and having as little raw_spin_lock as
> possible
> while having them if the caller is also holding one (like desc->lock
> during IRQ-affinity changes).
> I reverted one patch one patch in the iommu while rebasing since it
> make job easier.
If the goal is to have "as little raw_spin_lock as possible" -- and
presumably also to avoid unnecessary complexity -- wouldn't it be
better to leave my patch in, and drop patches 4 and 9?
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-17 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-16 20:18 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-16 20:18 ` [PATCH 01/10] iommu/amd: take into account that alloc_dev_data() may return NULL Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-16 20:18 ` [PATCH 02/10] iommu/amd: turn dev_data_list into a lock less list Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-16 20:18 ` [PATCH 03/10] iommu/amd: split domain id out of amd_iommu_devtable_lock Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-16 20:18 ` [PATCH 04/10] iommu/amd: split irq_lookup_table out of the amd_iommu_devtable_lock Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-16 20:18 ` [PATCH 05/10] Revert "iommu/amd: Avoid locking get_irq_table() from atomic context" Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-16 20:18 ` [PATCH 06/10] iommu/amd: remove the special case from get_irq_table() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-16 20:18 ` [PATCH 07/10] iommu/amd: use `table' instead `irt' as variable name in amd_iommu_update_ga() Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-16 20:18 ` [PATCH 08/10] iommu/amd: factor out setting the remap table for a devid Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-16 20:18 ` [PATCH 09/10] iommu/amd: drop the lock while allocating new irq remap table Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-16 20:18 ` [PATCH 10/10] iommu/amd: make amd_iommu_devtable_lock a spin_lock Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-17 19:49 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2018-03-17 21:10 ` [PATCH 00/10 v2] iommu/amd: lock splitting & GFP_KERNEL allocation Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-17 21:43 ` Scott Wood
2018-03-19 12:15 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2018-03-19 22:49 ` Scott Wood
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