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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Comments on Xen bug 1732

On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 08:22 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 15.03.11 at 19:30, Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ixgbevf: eth: ixgbevf_reset: PF still resetting
> 
> And nothing interesting in Dom0's logs?

Nothing of interest in the kernel messages no.

> > And correspondingly no Tx or Rx traffic at all. It all seems very much
> > like a lack of interrupts, but /proc/interrupts shows good numbers:
> > 
> > 201:        146       PCI-MSI-X  eth-rx-0
> > 209:        140       PCI-MSI-X  eth-tx-0
> > 217:          8       PCI-MSI-X  eth:mbx
> 
> With the above, I'd guess more towards a PF <-> VF communication
> problem (which I can say nothing about).

Actually, I do get this from the dom0 kernel:

ixgbe: eth5: ixgbe_rcv_msg_from_vf: Set MAC msg received from vf 0

> > Furthermore this used to work on xen 3.4 but fails on 4.1 so it seems to
> > be a regression. One other notable change is the assignments of the
> > MSI-X vectors that I see when hitting the Q debug key:
> > 
> > On 3.4:
> > (XEN) 04:10.0 - dom 1   - MSIs < 66 74 82 >
> > 
> > On 4.1:
> > (XEN) 04:10.1 - dom 0   - MSIs < 117 118 119 >
> 
> dom 1 on 3.4 vs dom 0 on 4.1? And different functions? Doesn't
> look like a 1:1 comparison to me.

Yeah they are different machines with the same SR-IOV NIC (similar
enough hardware wise). But the point is the different assigned domains,
bear in mind that in both cases the function in question is assigned to
a guest at the time the debug key was pressed.

> > Any ideas?
> 
> Not really. Despite me not thinking that the change in question
> (that introduced the WARN_ON()s) has any functionality impact
> (it's really only about trying to write protect certain MMIO
> ranges, with the WARN_ON()s reporting that this didn't work as
> expected) - did you try reverting it (and its follow-up fixes)?

No change.

Gianni


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