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

[Qing He <qing.he@xxxxxxxxx>]

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?

Thanks,
Qing

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