[Xen-devel] Is e820_host option available in xen 4.1.3 xl and how do I use it?

[Matthew Hook <matthew.hook@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi xen devel's

I am passing through some Infiniband HBA Virtual Functions and unfortunately when the memory for the guest is increased beyond 2GB they fail to initialize.

[    2.481040] mlx4_core: Mellanox ConnectX core driver v1.0 (July 14, 2011)

[    2.481044] mlx4_core: Initializing 0000:00:00.3

[    2.481127] mlx4_core 0000:00:00.3: device not available (can't reserve [mem 0xbf000000-0xbf7fffff 64bit pref])

[    2.481140] mlx4_core 0000:00:00.3: Cannot enable PCI device, aborting.

[    2.484019] mlx4_core: probe of 0000:00:00.3 failed with error -22

Do I need to set the e820_host=1 option? 

When I tried it, it fails to do anything significant.  

Does this functionality exist in xen 4.1.3?  Am I setting it correctly?

The top part of my guest config contains:

#

#  Kernel + memory size

#

# Pass through the infiniband 

e820_host=1

pci = ['06:00.1']

extra="iommu=soft"

bootloader = '/usr/lib/xen-default/bin/pygrub'

vcpus       = '4'

memory      = '8192'

maxmem      = '8192'

...

Using xm fails altogether although I did see a patch posted last year.

http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-users/2012-08/msg00150.html

Regards,  Matthew

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