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[Xen-devel] RE: [PATCH][VTD][QUIRK] added quirks for Sandybridge errata workaround, WLAN, VT-d fault escalation


  • To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Kay, Allen M" <allen.m.kay@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:19:41 -0800
  • Accept-language: en-US
  • Acceptlanguage: en-US
  • Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:20:21 -0800
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: Acu4eZwWCX+jMCkjQTO50GGq/3ZN6QAlmZtw
  • Thread-topic: [PATCH][VTD][QUIRK] added quirks for Sandybridge errata workaround, WLAN, VT-d fault escalation

> Wouldn't that result in excessive lock holding time?

It would be a problem for older platforms like Weybridge but Sandybridge has 
fixed the IGD IOTLB invalidation times.  Although I have not done actual 
measurement on this yet.

Given this quirks is for a corner case power management issue (not easily 
duplicated), I will submit a patch to disable it by default until we can answer 
you about the uses of the MMIO registers and implement the locking mechanism 
properly.

Allen

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