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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>,
	suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com
Cc: LiangX Z Li <liangx.z.li@intel.com>,
	Yang ZZhang <yang.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: VT-d flush timeout
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:56:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5423F4D2.60605@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <542410A90200007800038E3B@mail.emea.novell.com>

On 25/09/14 11:55, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 25.09.14 at 12:44, <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
>> The AMD code will wait for a period of time for the COMMAND_WAIT to
>> start, but not panic() on a timeout.
>>
>> By my reading of the code, amd_iommu_flush_iotlb() can complete without
>> confirming that the iotlbs have actually been flushed, and all that is
>> left behind is an AMD_IOMMU_DEBUG() message.
> Now that you say this I recall having stumbled across this questionable
> behavior in the past (and perhaps even more than once). Certainly
> something for our AMD IOMMU maintainers to look into...
>
> Jan
>

Agreed, although for now I think it is safer to leave ATS disabled.

~Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-25 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-18  2:01 VT-d flush timeout Zhang, Yang Z
2014-08-18  9:47 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-08-18 12:48 ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-19  1:34   ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-08-19 13:02     ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-21  3:16       ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-08-22  7:33         ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-22  7:49           ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-08-22  7:58             ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-22  8:05               ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-08-25 17:21                 ` Dugger, Donald D
2014-09-25  1:02       ` Dong, Eddie
2014-09-25  8:55         ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-25 10:44           ` Andrew Cooper
2014-09-25 10:55             ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-25 10:56               ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2014-09-25 11:48                 ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-25 21:21                   ` Tian, Kevin
2014-09-25 23:23           ` Dong, Eddie
2014-09-26  1:07             ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-09-26  6:30             ` Jan Beulich

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