Re: [PATCH] microvm: turn off io reservations for pcie root ports

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 09:10:23AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 06:37:50PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 09:28:38AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 12:06:17PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 10:59:20AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > > > The pcie host bridge has no io window on microvm,
> > > > > so io reservations will not work.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> > > > 
> > > > I don't much like overriding user like this. We end up users
> > > > setting it to silly values and then if we do want to
> > > > support this things just break. Thoughts?
> > > 
> > > Well, it just looked like the simplest way to tell the firmware that
> > > io reservations are pointless.  Do you have a better idea?
> > > 
> > > take care,
> > >   Gerd
> > 
> > Fail if user supplies values we can't support.
> 
> Well, it is the *default* value which doesn't work on microvm.
> 
> take care,
>   Gerd

Changing defaults is ok of course. Let's just not override the user.

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MST