RE: [Xen-devel] IRQ SMP affinity problems in domU with vcpus > 4 on HP ProLiant G6 with dual Xeon 5540 (Nehalem)

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> "Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> 20.10.09 09:51 >>>
>Attached two patches should fix the issues. For the issue which complains
>"(XEN) do_IRQ: 1.187 No irq handler for vector (irq -1),", I root-caused it.
>Currenlty, when programs MSI address & data, Xen doesn't perform the
>mask/unmask logic to avoid inconsistent interrupt genernation. In this
>case, according to spec, the interrupt generation behavior is undfined,
>and device may generate MSI interrupts with the expected vector and
>incorrect destination ID, so leads to the issue.  The attached two patches
>should address it. 

What about the case of MSI not having a mask bit? Shouldn't movement
(i.e. vector or affinity changes) be disallowed for non-maskable ones?

Jan


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