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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] spapr: move interrupt allocator to xics


From: Alexander Graf
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] spapr: move interrupt allocator to xics
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:38:06 +0200
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On 11.04.14 17:27, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
On 04/12/2014 12:58 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 11.04.14 16:50, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
On 04/11/2014 11:58 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 11.04.2014, at 14:38, Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> wrote:

On 04/11/2014 07:24 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 10.04.14 16:43, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
On 04/10/2014 11:26 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 10.04.14 15:24, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
On 04/10/2014 10:51 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 14.03.14 05:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
The current allocator returns IRQ numbers from a pool and does not
support IRQs reuse in any form as it did not keep track of what it
previously returned, it only had the last returned IRQ.
However migration may change interrupts for devices depending on
their order in the command line.
Wtf? Nonono, this sounds very bogus and wrong. Migration shouldn't
change
anything.
I put wrong commit message. By change I meant that the default state
before
the destination guest started accepting migration is different from
what
the destination guest became after migration finished. And migration
cannot
avoid changing this default state.
Ok, why is the IRQ configuration different?
Because QEMU creates devices in the order as in the command line, and
libvirt changes this order - the XML used to create the guest and the
XML
which is sends during migration are different. libvirt thinks it is ok
while it keeps @reg property for (for example) spapr-vscsi devices
but it
is not because since the order is different, devices call IRQ
allocator in
different order and get different IRQs.
So your patch migrates the current IRQ configuration, but once you
restart
the virtual machine on the destination host it will have different IRQ
numbering again, right?
No, why? IRQs are assigned at init time from realize() callbacks (and
survive reset) or as a part of ibm,change-msi rtas call which happens in
the same order as it only depends on pci addresses and we do not change
this either.
Ok, let me rephrase. If I shut the machine down because I'm doing
on-disk hibernate and then boot it back up, will the guest find the same
configuration?
I do not understand what you mean by this. Hibernation by the guest OS
itself or by QEMU? If this involves QEMU exit and QEMU start - then yes,
by the guest OS. The host will only see a genuine "shutdown" event. The
guest OS will expect the machine to look *the exact same* as before the
shutdown.
Ok. So. I have to implement "irq" property everywhere (PHB is missing
INTA/B/C/D now) and check if they did not change during migration via those

Hrm. Not sure. Maybe it'd make sense to join next week's call on platform device creation. The problem seems pretty closely related.

VMSTATE.*EQUAL. Correct?

Why would you need this? I think we already said a couple dozen times that configuration matching is a bigger problem, no?

If so (more or less), I still would like to keep patches 1..7.
In fact, the first one is independent and we need it anyway.
Yes/no?

Why?



config may be different. If it is "migrate to file" and then "migrate from
file" (do not know what you call it when migration goes to a pipe which is
"tar") - then config will be the same.


I'm not sure that's a good solution to the problem. I guess we should
rather aim to make sure that we can make IRQ allocation explicit.
Fundamentally the problem sounds very similar to the PCI slot allocation
which eventually got solved by libvirt specifying the slots manually.
We can do that too. Who decides? :)
The better solution wins :)
We both know who decides ;) I posted series, I need heads up if it is going
the right way or not.
It's not :). If a guest may not have different IRQ allocation after
migration, it also must not have different IRQ allocation after shutdown +
restart.
Ok. That's good answer, thanks. How does x86 work then? IRQs are hardcoded
(some are for sure but I do not know about MSI)? Or in order to support

Non-PCI IRQs are hardcoded, yes. PCI IRQs are mapped to one of the 4 PCI interrupts which again are hardcoded to IOAPIC interrupt lines after some PCI line swizzling.

MSI gets configured by the guest, so it has to make sure MSIs are set up identically again after hibernation.


Alex
migration, the user has to specify IRQs for the devices which may get
different IRQs depending on things like command line parameters order?




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