Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to 4KB regardless of system page size"

Or Gerlitz
2016-03-15T10:40:14Z

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> wrote:
> This reverts commit 85743f1eb34548ba4b056d2f184a3d107a3b8917.
>
> Without this revert, POWER "pseries" KVM guests with a VF passed to a guest
> using VFIO fail to bring the driver up:
>
> mlx4_core: Mellanox ConnectX core driver v2.2-1 (Feb, 2014)
> mlx4_core: Initializing 0000:00:00.0
> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: Detected virtual function - running in slave mode
> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: Sending reset
> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: Sending vhcr0
> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: HCA minimum page size:512
> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: UAR size:4096 != kernel PAGE_SIZE of 65536
> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: Failed to obtain slave caps

> Both host and guest use 64K system pages.
>
> How to fix this properly? Thanks.

The commit message says:

"[..] Regarding backward compatibility in SR-IOV, if hypervisor has
this new code, the virtual OS must be updated. [...]"

Or.