Re: drivers/pci: (and/or KVM): Slow PCI initialization during VM boot with passthrough of large BAR Nvidia GPUs on DGX H100

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2024 17:09:07 -0600
Mitchell Augustin <mitchell.augustin@canonical.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestions!
> 
> > The calling convention of __pci_read_base() is already changing if we're having the caller disable decoding  
> 
> The way I implemented that in my initial patch draft[0] still allows
> for __pci_read_base() to be called independently, as it was
> originally, since (as far as I understand) the encode disable/enable
> is just a mask - so I didn't need to remove the disable/enable inside
> __pci_read_base(), and instead just added an extra one in
> pci_read_bases(), turning the __pci_read_base() disable/enable into a
> no-op when called from pci_read_bases(). In any case...
> 
> > I think maybe another alternative that doesn't hold off the console would be to split the BAR sizing and resource processing into separate steps.  
> 
> This seems like a potentially better option, so I'll dig into that approach.
> 
> 
> Providing some additional info you requested last week, just for more context:
> 
> > Do you have similar logs from that [hotplug] operation  
> 
> Attached [1] is the guest boot output (boot was quick, since no GPUs
> were attached at boot time)

I think what's happening here is that decode is already disabled on the
hot-added device (vs enabled by the VM firmware on cold-plug), so in
practice it's similar to your nested disable solution.  Thanks,

Alex