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 Hi, 
Am 08.12.2010 schrieb "Mark Adams <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>": 
> Hi - Apologies to top post this, but after alot of testing, I believe 
> there must be an issue with IRQ's going missing between domU and dom0. 
> Unfortunately I have no data to prove this! 
>  
> With msitranslate=0 as detailed below, and pci=nomsi in the guest kernel 
> grub config, all 3 NIC's appear OK in the domU however I still had 
> issues with the red-fone ISDN box. The interrupts were showing correctly 
> (2000/s) in the domU but communication to the device via the NIC was 
> still being interrupted (as shown in the asterisk console)Note that to 
> get the igb driver to allow this many interrupts, the 
> InterruptThrottleRate was set to 0. The same config (red-fone box, 
> asterisk etc) works fine with a physical server. 
>  
> There is also the additional issue that I could not get the passthrough 
> NIC's to show correctly when I also had a bridge setup. 
>  
> Throughout my testing however, I could not get the machine to crash. 
>  
> Not sure where to go with this one. For now we are keeping our VoIP 
> servers physical when ISDN connections are required. 
Today I did some tests with xen-unstable and found these problems too. 
I tried to passthrough 2 pci cards and got some error messages on the xen 
xonsole and in the qemu logs. 
With msitranslate=0 and pci=nomsi I got the soundcard working in a domU linux 
but it doesn't help on windows. 
I attached the logs from the xen serial console and the qemu logs. 
Thanks! 
Dietmar. 
>  
> Regards, 
> Mark 
>  
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:36:35AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: 
> > >  
> > > In my new test setup, I have seen some strange behaviour. 1 of the HVM's 
> > > (with identical config in dom0 and domU) suddenly would not allow the 
> > > igb driver to be loaded in domU, even though the device was visible in 
> >  
> > Let's create a new thread for this other issue. 
> >  
> > > lspci. Shutting the machine down, removing the power cord, waiting 5 
> > > seconds then plugging it in again corrected that issue - Is this 
> > > possibly a motherboard bug? I have also disabled the SR-IOV 
> > > functionality in the BIOS incase this is causing any issues. 
> > >  
> > > In addition, to try to correct the MSI issue noted above, I have changed 
> > > my pci= line to the following: 
> > >  
> > > pci=[ '08:00.0,msitranslate=0', '08:00.1,msitranslate=0' ] 
> >  
> > With the msi_translate=1 turned on the DomU HVM guests did work, right? 
> >  
> > >  
> > > This has stopped the "already in use on device" log, and the devices 
> > > appear to show correctly in the domU. Is it safe to disable 
> > > msitranslate? as I understand it, its for allowing multifunction devices 
> > > to be seen as such in domU. Is that correct? 
> > >  
> > > I haven't been able to reproduce the dropped raid issue yet, but I am 
> > > awaiting delivery of the Red-Fone boxes (ISDN VoIP) which seem to cause 
> > > this due to their very high interrupt usage (2000 per second). 
> >  
> > OK. 
> > >  
> > > In the mean time, I can see the following in the qemu-dm logs now with 
> > > the msitranslate=0 enabled. Is it anything to worry about? 
> >  
> > Well, the  "Error" ones are pretty bad, thought I am having a hard time 
> > understanding what it means. Lets copy some of the QEMU folks on this. 
> >  
> > > pt_pci_write_config: Warning: Guest attempt to set address to unused Base Address Register. [00:05.0][Offset:14h][Length:4] 
> > > pt_ioport_map: e_phys=ffff pio_base=e880 len=32 index=2 first_map=0 
> > > pt_ioport_map: e_phys=c220 pio_base=e880 len=32 index=2 first_map=0 
> > > pt_pci_write_config: Warning: Guest attempt to set address to unused Base Address Register. [00:06.0][Offset:14h][Length:4] 
> > > pt_ioport_map: e_phys=ffff pio_base=ec00 len=32 index=2 first_map=0 
> > > pt_ioport_map: e_phys=c240 pio_base=ec00 len=32 index=2 first_map=0 
> > > pt_msix_update_one: Update msix entry 0 with pirq 4f gvec 59 
> > > pt_msix_update_one: Update msix entry 1 with pirq 4e gvec 61 
> > > pt_msix_update_one: Update msix entry 2 with pirq 4d gvec 69 
> > > pt_msix_update_one: Update msix entry 3 with pirq 4c gvec 71 
> > > pt_msix_update_one: Update msix entry 4 with pirq 4b gvec 79 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 0 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 0 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 0 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 1 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 1 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 1 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 2 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 2 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 2 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 3 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 3 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 3 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 4 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 4 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > > pci_msix_writel: Error: Can't update msix entry 4 since MSI-X is already function. 
> > >  
> > > >  
> > > > Not yet. Need to serial log of the Linux kernel and the Xen hypervisor when your 
> > > > machine is toast. I mentioned in the previous email the key sequences - look on Google 
> > > > on how to pass in SysRQ if you are using a serial concentrator. 
> > >  
> > > I will do this when I can get the machine to crash. 
> > >  
> > > Best Regards, 
> > > Mark 
> > >  
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