RE: [Xen-devel] SR-IOV problems - HVM cannot access network

["Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David White [mailto:dwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 2:05 PM
> To: Rose, Gregory V
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] SR-IOV problems - HVM cannot access network
> 
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> 
> The guest driver does not seem to be the source of this difference,
> since these qemu logs are logged before HVM grub menu appears (and hence
> before guest kernel is loaded)
> 
> Why would a physical function invoke MSI-X but not a virtual function?

A lot of reasons actually :-).  SR-IOV is a complete platform solution and 
feature.  It requires full support from all PCIe devices from the root complex 
to the endpoint device as well as proper BIOS programming and OS support.

I don't know that Ubuntu actually supports SR-IOV and I don't know which 
platform you're using and whether it supports SR-IOV.

> Is it something that pciback is doing?
> 
> When I bind a PF to pciback, the xen-pciback driver shows:
> [ 1390.090693] pciback 0000:04:00.1: seizing device
> [ 1390.095417] xen_allocate_pirq: returning irq 17 for gsi 17
> [ 1390.101021] Already setup the GSI :17
> [ 1390.104717] pciback 0000:04:00.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) ->
> IRQ 17
> [ 1390.111807] pciback 0000:04:00.1: PCI INT B disabled
> 
> but when I bind a VF to pciback, the driver shows:
> [ 1439.411763] pciback 0000:04:10.0: seizing device
> [ 1439.416462] pciback 0000:04:10.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
> 
> (note no INT or GSI messages)
> 
> could pciback be the source of the HVM INTx problem?

Well it's certainly possible but another good possibility is that the machine 
doesn't actually implement the SR-IOV feature correctly in the BIOS.  What 
machine are you using?  Is there a BIOS setting to enable SR-IOV and if so are 
you sure you've enabled it?

Also, would it be possible to get a register dump of the VF device from both 
the Dom0 host domain and the DomU guest domain using the Intel ethregs utility? 
 You can get that from source forge.

- Greg


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