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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Possible regression in "passthough: add no_wb option for pci conf write"



On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:16:40AM +0800, Qing He wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 13:55 +0800, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > passthough: add no_wb option for pci conf write
> > > 
> > > Current pt_pci_write_config always writes back to real pci conf
> > > space. However, in the case of MSI address and data registers,
> > > if guest changes the affinity of the interrupt, stale data will
> > > be written to these registers. This is particularly a problem
> > > if Xen uses per-CPU vector, where the interrupt in question fails
> > > to work. This patch fixes this by adding an option to disable the
> > > write back of certain controls.
> > 
> > This patch seems to cause the creation of passing a domain
> > to fail     when passing through either an intel 82576 or 82572EI.
> > I didn't try any others.
> > 
> 
> Hi Simon,
>       Do you notice anything unusual in the ioemu and hypervisor logs?

I couldn't see anything of particular note. I'll try and poke a bit harder.


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