[PATCH v5 09/17] powerpc/vas: Define QoS credit flag to allocate window

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 14 12:32:54 AEST 2021


Excerpts from Haren Myneni's message of June 13, 2021 9:00 pm:
> 
> PowerVM introduces two different type of credits: Default and Quality
> of service (QoS).
> 
> The total number of default credits available on each LPAR depends
> on CPU resources configured. But these credits can be shared or
> over-committed across LPARs in shared mode which can result in
> paste command failure (RMA_busy). To avoid NX HW contention, the
> hypervisor ntroduces QoS credit type which makes sure guaranteed
> access to NX esources. The system admins can assign QoS credits
> or each LPAR via HMC.
> 
> Default credit type is used to allocate a VAS window by default as
> on PowerVM implementation. But the process can pass
> VAS_TX_WIN_FLAG_QOS_CREDIT flag with VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl to open
> QoS type window.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren at linux.ibm.com>

Flag name looks good now. Again I don't have the spec, so

Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

Thanks,
Nick

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/vas-api.h | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/vas-api.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/vas-api.h
> index ebd4b2424785..7c81301ecdba 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/vas-api.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/vas-api.h
> @@ -13,11 +13,15 @@
>  #define VAS_MAGIC	'v'
>  #define VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN	_IOW(VAS_MAGIC, 0x20, struct vas_tx_win_open_attr)
>  
> +/* Flags to VAS TX open window ioctl */
> +/* To allocate a window with QoS credit, otherwise use default credit */
> +#define VAS_TX_WIN_FLAG_QOS_CREDIT	0x0000000000000001
> +
>  struct vas_tx_win_open_attr {
>  	__u32	version;
>  	__s16	vas_id;	/* specific instance of vas or -1 for default */
>  	__u16	reserved1;
> -	__u64	flags;	/* Future use */
> +	__u64	flags;
>  	__u64	reserved2[6];
>  };
>  
> -- 
> 2.18.2
> 
> 
> 


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