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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 0/3] hw/pcie: Introduce Generic PCI Express R
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 0/3] hw/pcie: Introduce Generic PCI Express Root Port |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:20:08 +0200 |
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 06:05:20PM +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> On 01/12/2017 05:56 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 02:18:53PM +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> > > v1 -> v2:
> > > - Rebased on master.
> > >
> > > The Generic Root Port behaves the same as the
> > > Intel's IOH device with id 3420, without having
> > > Intel specific attributes.
> > >
> > > The device has two purposes:
> > > (1) Can be used on both X86 and ARM machines.
> > > (2) It will allow us to tweak the behaviour
> > > (e.g add vendor-specific PCI capabilities)
> > > - something that obviously cannot be done
> > > on a known device.
> > >
> > > Patch 1/3: Introduce a base class for Root Ports - most of the code
> > > is migrated from IOH3420 implementation.
> > > Patch 2/3: Derives the IOH3420 from the new base class
> > > Patch 3/3: Introduces the generic Root Port.
> > >
> > > Tested with Linux and Windows guests only on x86 hosts.
> >
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> > So I understand how it's helpful to share code
> > with an existing bridge, but I worries me that
> > you picked up some arbitrary values from the intel chip
> > and promote them as a standard pcie thing.
> >
>
> I suppose you are referring to the macros, I can duplicate
> them, of course.
>
> > You want to have e.g. base-pcie-root-port and
> > inherit that. Only put really common stuff in there.
> > Similar to how we do it in hw/pci/pci_bridge.c
> >
>
> So you prefer a different code file for the generic device.
> I currently put them both in the same file, I'll split.
>
> >
> > Now we do not want to over-engineer, so I understand
> > how you might want to say hey I use this option
> > and intel does the same so we do not need a flag
> > for that now. And that's fine but please add a comment
> > to that end.
> >
>
> Indeed, I wanted to keep things simple. I'll add a comment
> on the functions that are not generic but are the same on
> both implementations 'by chance'.
>
> > And when you do you will discover there's some stuff you
> > might be able to simplify, e.g. I don't yet see why
> > you would want AER support there.
> >
>
> I am not sure *why not*.
> I am 'afraid' people will not use the new port
> because of missing features and they can see the AER as one of them.
> Do you see a special issue in imitating Intel's behavior on AER?
>
> Thanks,
> Marcel
Not really, fair enough. Just keep an eye out for caps
you don't need. E.g. it's worth considering whether
msi-x would be better since then you can just use
a fixed vector number without playing tricks like
you have to with msi.
> > > Marcel Apfelbaum (3):
> > > hw/pcie: Introduce a base class for PCI Express Root Ports
> > > hw/ioh3420: derive from PCI Express Root Port base class
> > > hw/pcie: Introduce Generic PCI Express Root Port
> > >
> > > default-configs/arm-softmmu.mak | 1 +
> > > default-configs/i386-softmmu.mak | 1 +
> > > default-configs/x86_64-softmmu.mak | 1 +
> > > hw/pci-bridge/Makefile.objs | 1 +
> > > hw/pci-bridge/ioh3420.c | 152 ++-----------------------
> > > hw/pci-bridge/pcie_root_port.c | 228
> > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > include/hw/pci/pci.h | 1 +
> > > include/hw/pci/pcie_port.h | 18 +++
> > > 8 files changed, 258 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-)
> > > create mode 100644 hw/pci-bridge/pcie_root_port.c
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.5.5
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 0/3] hw/pcie: Introduce Generic PCI Express Root Port, Andrea Bolognani, 2017/01/16