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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>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.