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From: "Ed Swierk" <eswierk@arastra.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] PCI IRQ routing problems
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:10:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1bf1cf0609131110w278a7bdcyca64cccb638ce76a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Linux 2.6.17 running on the latest qemu snapshot is unable to route
IRQs to more than 4 network interfaces when running without ACPI, and
is limited to 2 network interfaces with ACPI enabled.

With 8 network interfaces and ACPI disabled, I get the following
kernel output during boot:

ne2k-pci.c:v1.03 9/22/2003 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:03.0
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc100, IRQ 10, 52:54:00:12:34:56.
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:04.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:01.2
eth1: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc200, IRQ 11, 52:54:00:12:34:57.
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:05.0
eth2: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc300, IRQ 9, 52:54:00:12:34:58.
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:06.0
eth3: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc400, IRQ 5, 52:54:00:12:34:59.
eth4: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc500, IRQ 11, 52:54:00:12:34:5A.
eth5: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc600, IRQ 9, 52:54:00:12:34:5B.
eth6: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc700, IRQ 11, 52:54:00:12:34:5C.
eth7: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc800, IRQ 9, 52:54:00:12:34:5D.

The missing "Found IRQ" messages for eth4 through eth7 indicate that
IRQs won't get routed properly. Indeed, later on the kernel emits
complaints like: "irq 11: nobody cared ... Disabling IRQ #11".

With 3 network interfaces and ACPI enabled, I get slightly different output:

ne2k-pci.c:v1.03 9/22/2003 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:03.0
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc100, IRQ 9, 52:54:00:12:34:56.
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:04.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:01.2
eth1: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc200, IRQ 11, 52:54:00:12:34:57.
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:05.0
IRQ routing conflict for 0000:00:01.3, have irq 9, want irq 10
eth2: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc300, IRQ 10, 52:54:00:12:34:58.
piix4_smbus 0000:00:01.3: Found 0000:00:01.3 device
piix4_smbus 0000:00:01.3: SMB base address uninitialized - upgrade
BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr

Only eth0 and eth1 end up working.

I suspect the problem in the non-ACPI case is caused by a limitation
in the PCI IRQ routing table in the Bochs BIOS, but I haven't a clue
how to fix it. Any ideas would be appreciated.

--Ed

             reply	other threads:[~2006-09-13 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-13 18:10 Ed Swierk [this message]
2006-09-14 21:32 ` [Qemu-devel] PCI IRQ routing problems Fabrice Bellard

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