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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to 4KB regardless of system page size"
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On 03/15/2016 09:40 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> wrote:
>> This reverts commit 85743f1eb34548ba4b056d2f184a3d107a3b8917.
>>
>> Without this revert, POWER "pseries" KVM guests with a VF passed to a guest
>> using VFIO fail to bring the driver up:
>>
>> mlx4_core: Mellanox ConnectX core driver v2.2-1 (Feb, 2014)
>> mlx4_core: Initializing 0000:00:00.0
>> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
>> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: Detected virtual function - running in slave mode
>> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: Sending reset
>> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: Sending vhcr0
>> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: HCA minimum page size:512
>> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: UAR size:4096 != kernel PAGE_SIZE of 65536
>> mlx4_core 0000:00:00.0: Failed to obtain slave caps
>
>> Both host and guest use 64K system pages.
>>
>> How to fix this properly? Thanks.
>
> The commit message says:
>
> "[..] Regarding backward compatibility in SR-IOV, if hypervisor has
> this new code, the virtual OS must be updated. [...]"


So with v4.5 as a host, there is no actual distro available today to use as
a guest in the next 6 months (or whatever it takes to backport this
partucular patch back there).

You could have added a module parameter to enforce the old behavoir, at
least...

And sorry but from the original commit log I could not understand why
exactly all existing guests need to be broken. Could you please point me to
a piece of documentation describing all this UAR bisuness (what is UAR, why
128 UARs are required and for what, etc). Thanks.


--
Alexey

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