On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Dai, Wei <wei....@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi, Tonghao
> Thanks for your patch.
> It looks that same change can be applied to ixgbe_dev_interrupt_action( )
> and ixgbe_dev_interrupt_delayed_handler( ).
Yes, but the irq (e.g mailbox irq) is not  same as rx interrupt
handled frequently.
and it will not affect the performance.

 > Anyway, you can test all these changes with example/l3fwd-power.
> -Wei
I tested them with  example/l3fwd-power and our apps. It is ok.
I will send v3 to you.

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Xing, Beilei
>> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 3:06 PM
>> To: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m....@gmail.com>; dev@dpdk.org
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] net/ixgbevf: add check for
>> rte_intr_enable.
>>
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Tonghao Zhang
>> > Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 10:11 PM
>> > To: dev@dpdk.org
>> > Cc: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m....@gmail.com>
>> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] net/ixgbevf: add check for
>> rte_intr_enable.
>>
>> The patch is not only for ixgbevf, but also for ixgbe, right?
>> so how about changing the title with net/ixgbe started?
>>
>> > When we bind the ixgbevf to vfio and call the
>> > rte_eth_dev_rx_intr_enable and rte_eth_dev_rx_intr_disable frequently,
>> > the interrupt setting
>> > (msi_set_mask_bit) will take more CPU as show below. rte_intr_enable
>> > call the ioctl to map the fd to interrupts frequently.
>> >
>> > perf top:
>> > 5.45%  [kernel]   [k] msi_set_mask_bit
>> >
>> > It is unnecessary to call the rte_intr_enable in
>> > ixgbe_dev_rx_queue_intr_enable. because the fds has been mapped to
>> > interrupt and not unmapped in ixgbe_dev_rx_queue_intr_disable.
>> >
>> > This patch add checks for using VFIO.  With the patch,
>> > msi_set_mask_bit is not listed in perl any more. Any suggestion will be
>> welcome.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m....@gmail.com>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 9 +++++++--
>> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
>> > b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
>> > index e929235..79e4097 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
>> > @@ -5610,7 +5610,9 @@ static void ixgbevf_set_vfta_all(struct
>> > rte_eth_dev *dev, bool on)
>> >     RTE_SET_USED(queue_id);
>> >     IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_VTEIMS, intr->mask);
>> >
>> > -   rte_intr_enable(intr_handle);
>> > +   if (intr_handle->type == RTE_INTR_HANDLE_UIO ||
>> > +       intr_handle->type == RTE_INTR_HANDLE_UIO_INTX)
>> > +           rte_intr_enable(intr_handle);
>>
>> For igb_uio, did you check if it's necessary to call rte_intr_enable every 
>> time?
>> Since rte interrupt is not disabled during ixgbevf_dev_rx_queue_intr_disable.
>>
>> >
>> >     return 0;
>> >  }
>> > @@ -5659,7 +5661,10 @@ static void ixgbevf_set_vfta_all(struct
>> > rte_eth_dev *dev, bool on)
>> >             mask &= (1 << (queue_id - 32));
>> >             IXGBE_WRITE_REG(hw, IXGBE_EIMS_EX(1), mask);
>> >     }
>> > -   rte_intr_enable(intr_handle);
>> > +
>> > +   if (intr_handle->type == RTE_INTR_HANDLE_UIO ||
>> > +       intr_handle->type == RTE_INTR_HANDLE_UIO_INTX)
>> > +           rte_intr_enable(intr_handle);
>>
>> The same comment as above.
>>
>> >
>> >     return 0;
>> >  }
>> > --
>> > 1.8.3.1
>

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