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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>, gordan@bobich.net
Subject: Re: Dealing with non-existent BDF devices in VT-d and in the hardware.
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:22:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140312142203.GG3245@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5320345702000078001231C2@nat28.tlf.novell.com>

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:17:59AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 11.03.14 at 18:30, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> wrote:
> > To use this hack, apply the 
> > 0001-xen-pci-Introduce-a-way-to-deal-with-buggy-hardware-.patch
> > to your hypervisor, compile and install.
> 
> I'm still rather hesitant to consider such a pretty involved
> workaround for general inclusion. Did you investigate whether
> leveraging the grouping functionality (iommu_get_device_group())
> might be possible instead? We're talking about a legacy PCI bridge
> after all, and if done that way also covering the AMD IOMMU case
> might be more straightforward (after all that case is missing from
> your already large patch).

<nods>

I think other people have experienced other non-bridge issues.
I have CC-ed Gordan on this as he had a LSI card that was misbehaving.

I am curious to see what his lspci and lspci -vt looks for his culprit.

> 
> While looking over this, I found that this only has a use in xend -
> another xl deficiency? And only for checking purposes, rather

Gosh.
> than to enforce the assignment of all (non-bridge?) devices in
> the group...
> 
> Jan
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-12 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-11 17:30 Dealing with non-existent BDF devices in VT-d and in the hardware Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-03-11 17:36 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-03-11 17:49   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-03-14  2:18     ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-03-14 17:51       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-03-17  1:03         ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-03-17 20:00           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-03-19  0:32             ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-03-19 12:57               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-03-19 14:24                 ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-20  0:48                   ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-03-20  7:14                     ` Gordan Bobic
2014-03-20 10:04                       ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-20  9:58                     ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-24  2:37                       ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-03-24  7:25                         ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-12  9:17 ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-12 14:22   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2014-03-12 17:10     ` Gordan Bobic
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-03-20  1:34 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-03-20 10:02 ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-20 19:44   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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