[PATCH RESEND 25/27] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Force all channel messages to be delivered on CPU 0

K. Y. Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Tue Dec 15 00:01:56 UTC 2015


Force all channel messages to be delivered on CPU0. These messages are not
performance critical and are used during the setup and teardown of the
channel.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys at microsoft.com>
---
 drivers/hv/connection.c |   11 +++++++----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/connection.c b/drivers/hv/connection.c
index 521f48e..3dc5a9c 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/connection.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/connection.c
@@ -83,10 +83,13 @@ static int vmbus_negotiate_version(struct vmbus_channel_msginfo *msginfo,
 	msg->interrupt_page = virt_to_phys(vmbus_connection.int_page);
 	msg->monitor_page1 = virt_to_phys(vmbus_connection.monitor_pages[0]);
 	msg->monitor_page2 = virt_to_phys(vmbus_connection.monitor_pages[1]);
-	if (version >= VERSION_WIN8_1) {
-		msg->target_vcpu = hv_context.vp_index[get_cpu()];
-		put_cpu();
-	}
+	/*
+	 * We want all channel messages to be delivered on CPU 0.
+	 * This has been the behavior pre-win8. This is not
+	 * perf issue and having all channel messages delivered on CPU 0
+	 * would be ok.
+	 */
+	msg->target_vcpu = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * Add to list before we send the request since we may
-- 
1.7.4.1



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