On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 04:06:16PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> From: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.came...@huawei.com>
> 
> These are very similar to the recently added Generic Initiators
> but instead of representing an initiator of memory traffic they
> represent an edge point beyond which may lie either targets or
> initiators.  Here we add these ports such that they may
> be targets of hmat_lb records to describe the latency and
> bandwidth from host side initiators to the port.  A discoverable
> mechanism such as UEFI CDAT read from CXL devices and switches
> is used to discover the remainder of the path, and the OS can build
> up full latency and bandwidth numbers as need for work and data
> placement decisions.
> 
> Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.hu...@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.came...@huawei.com>
> Message-Id: <20240916174122.1843197-1-jonathan.came...@huawei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  qapi/qom.json                       |  41 ++++++++++
>  include/hw/acpi/aml-build.h         |   3 +
>  include/hw/acpi/pci.h               |   2 +-
>  include/hw/pci/pci_bridge.h         |   1 +
>  hw/acpi/aml-build.c                 |  39 ++++++++++
>  hw/acpi/pci.c                       | 116 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c            |   2 +-
>  hw/i386/acpi-build.c                |   2 +-
>  hw/pci-bridge/pci_expander_bridge.c |   1 -
>  9 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qapi/qom.json b/qapi/qom.json
> index 321ccd708a..a8beeabf1f 100644
> --- a/qapi/qom.json
> +++ b/qapi/qom.json
> @@ -844,6 +844,45 @@
>    'data': { 'pci-dev': 'str',
>              'node': 'uint32' } }
>  
> +##
> +# @AcpiGenericPortProperties:
> +#
> +# Properties for acpi-generic-port objects.
> +#
> +# @pci-bus: QOM path of the PCI bus of the hostbridge associated with
> +#     this SRAT Generic Port Affinity Structure.  This is the same as
> +#     the bus parameter for the root ports attached to this host
> +#     bridge.  The resulting SRAT Generic Port Affinity Structure will
> +#     refer to the ACPI object in DSDT that represents the host bridge
> +#     (e.g.  ACPI0016 for CXL host bridges).  See ACPI 6.5 Section
> +#     5.2.16.7 for more information.
> +#
> +# @node: Similar to a NUMA node ID, but instead of providing a
> +#     reference point used for defining NUMA distances and access
> +#     characteristics to memory or from an initiator (e.g. CPU), this
> +#     node defines the boundary point between non-discoverable system
> +#     buses which must be described by firmware, and a discoverable
> +#     bus.  NUMA distances and access characteristics are defined to
> +#     and from that point.  For system software to establish full
> +#     initiator to target characteristics this information must be
> +#     combined with information retrieved from the discoverable part
> +#     of the path.  An example would use CDAT (see UEFI.org)
> +#     information read from devices and switches in conjunction with
> +#     link characteristics read from PCIe Configuration space.
> +#     To get the full path latency from CPU to CXL attached DRAM
> +#     CXL device:  Add the latency from CPU to Generic Port (from
> +#     HMAT indexed via the the node ID in this SRAT structure) to
> +#     that for CXL bus links, the latency across intermediate switches
> +#     and from the EP port to the actual memory.  Bandwidth is more
> +#     complex as there may be interleaving across multiple devices
> +#     and shared links in the path.
> +#
> +# Since: 9.1

This is outdated, we're in the 9.2 dev cycle currently.


With regards,
Daniel
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