Drivers: hv: vmbus: Introduce the CHANNELMSG_MODIFYCHANNEL message type
authorAndrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Mon, 6 Apr 2020 00:15:13 +0000 (02:15 +0200)
committerWei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:17:12 +0000 (13:17 +0000)
commit7527810573436f00e582d3d5ef2eb3c027c98d7d
tree997d4cf7717c0aa82de7649cd10f0de9fd99bb7f
parentd570aec0f2154e1bfba14ffd0df164a185e363b5
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Introduce the CHANNELMSG_MODIFYCHANNEL message type

VMBus version 4.1 and later support the CHANNELMSG_MODIFYCHANNEL(22)
message type which can be used to request Hyper-V to change the vCPU
that a channel will interrupt.

Introduce the CHANNELMSG_MODIFYCHANNEL message type, and define the
vmbus_send_modifychannel() function to send CHANNELMSG_MODIFYCHANNEL
requests to the host via a hypercall.  The function is then used to
define a sysfs "store" operation, which allows to change the (v)CPU
the channel will interrupt by using the sysfs interface.  The feature
can be used for load balancing or other purposes.

One interesting catch here is that Hyper-V can *not* currently ACK
CHANNELMSG_MODIFYCHANNEL messages with the promise that (after the ACK
is sent) the channel won't send any more interrupts to the "old" CPU.

The peculiarity of the CHANNELMSG_MODIFYCHANNEL messages is problematic
if the user want to take a CPU offline, since we don't want to take a
CPU offline (and, potentially, "lose" channel interrupts on such CPU)
if the host is still processing a CHANNELMSG_MODIFYCHANNEL message
associated to that CPU.

It is worth mentioning, however, that we have been unable to observe
the above mentioned "race": in all our tests, CHANNELMSG_MODIFYCHANNEL
requests appeared *as if* they were processed synchronously by the host.

Suggested-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri (Microsoft) <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200406001514.19876-11-parri.andrea@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
[ wei: fix conflict in channel_mgmt.c ]
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
drivers/hv/channel.c
drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
drivers/hv/hv_trace.h
drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c
include/linux/hyperv.h