From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"shashidhar.patil@gmail.com" <shashidhar.patil@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] pci-assign: Optionally enable 64bit BARs in guest
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:51:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F27E3C2.5050204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F27E25A.1060306@siemens.com>
On 01/31/2012 02:45 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2012-01-31 13:40, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 01/28/2012 04:21 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> >> To date we've only exposed BARs as 32bit even if the device
> >> physically supports 64bit BARs. Enable 64bit BARs to be
> >> exposed as such in the guest, which may free up MMIO below
> >> 4G should the guest choose to use it.
> >>
> >> This adds a new mem64= option to pci-assign, with the
> >> default being off for testing and enablement. The goal
> >> is to eventually make this enabled by default.
> >>
> >
> > Seems fine, but do we really need the option? If it doesn't work we
> > should treat it as an ordinary but and fix it.
>
> So far it's against the architecture of the emulated system: our current
> chipset predates 64 bit PCI.
>
Then it should be enabled/disabled at the chipset level.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-28 14:21 [PATCH 0/9] pci-assign: 64bit MMIO + better MSI-X table support Alex Williamson
2012-01-28 14:21 ` [PATCH 1/9] pci-assign: Optionally enable 64bit BARs in guest Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 12:40 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-31 12:45 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-31 12:51 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-01-31 12:57 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-31 13:10 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-31 13:21 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-31 13:33 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-31 21:08 ` Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 21:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-01 9:03 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-01 10:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-01 13:55 ` Alex Williamson
2012-02-01 15:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-02-01 15:24 ` Alex Williamson
2012-01-28 14:21 ` [PATCH 2/9] pci-assign: Fix warnings with DEBUG enabled Alex Williamson
2012-01-28 14:21 ` [PATCH 3/9] pci-assign: Update MSI-X MMIO to Memory API Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 12:45 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-31 21:13 ` Alex Williamson
2012-02-01 4:22 ` Alex Williamson
2012-02-01 9:04 ` Avi Kivity
2012-02-01 13:56 ` Alex Williamson
2012-01-28 14:21 ` [PATCH 4/9] pci-assign: Use struct for MSI-X table Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 17:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-01-31 19:05 ` Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 20:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-01-31 21:17 ` Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 21:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-01-31 21:30 ` Alex Williamson
2012-01-28 14:22 ` [PATCH 5/9] pci-assign: Only calculate maximum MSI-X vector entries once Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 20:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-01-31 20:31 ` Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 20:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-01-28 14:22 ` [PATCH 6/9] pci-assign: Proper initialization for MSI-X table Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 17:40 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-01-31 19:07 ` Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 19:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-01-31 19:16 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-31 20:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-01-31 21:06 ` Alex Williamson
2012-01-28 14:22 ` [PATCH 7/9] pci-assign: Allocate entries for all MSI-X vectors Alex Williamson
2012-01-28 14:22 ` [PATCH 8/9] pci-assign: Use MSIX_PAGE_SIZE Alex Williamson
2012-01-28 14:22 ` [PATCH 9/9] pci-assign: Update MSI-X config based on table writes Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 12:50 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-30 10:11 ` [PATCH 0/9] pci-assign: 64bit MMIO + better MSI-X table support Jan Kiszka
2012-01-30 13:44 ` Alex Williamson
2012-01-31 12:52 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-31 12:56 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-06 15:55 ` Shashidhar Patil
2012-02-06 17:29 ` Alex Williamson
2012-02-09 16:23 ` Shashidhar Patil
2012-02-09 17:23 ` Alex Williamson
2012-02-12 16:30 ` Shashidhar Patil
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