Re: [PATCH 0/9] pci-assign: 64bit MMIO + better MSI-X table support

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On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 21:53 +0530, Shashidhar Patil wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>     I tested your code changes for two problems
> 1. MSIX vectors allocation for FreeBSD Guest
>     Tested the allocation of MSI-X allocation happening for both
> FreeBSD-9.0 (also tested 8.2) and Linux guest.
>      Also tried multiple restart of the guests to see if the hosts
> still maintains those allocations. With Linux
>      as guest I could pass traffic. Though interrupt allocation worked
> the FreeBSD could to pass traffic. The FreeBSD
>      driver seems to be broken(atleast when running in guest).

Which device/driver?  I was able to use an 82576, both physical device
and sr-iov virtual function) with the freebsd 9.0 igb driver.

> 2. Guest MSI-X smp_affinity fix.
>      The smp_affinity configured in guest is honoured. The traffic
> distribution is uniform. When smp affinity is configured
>      in host and guest properly this fix provides multi queue and
> hence multi core traffic distribution in both host and
>      guest. The result is good packet throughput.
> 
> Thanks for the the much needed fixes.

Thanks for testing!

Alex

> -Shashidhar
> 
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Alex Williamson
> <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 21:25 +0530, Shashidhar Patil wrote:
> >> HI Alex,
> >>      I can give it a try. Please send me all patches as one file if possible.
> >> I was about to report yet another problem with Guest MSI-X smp affinity
> >> not being honoured by KVM while injecting interrupts. Its again in the context
> >> of 82599 device (tried with Linux as guest). I had a hunch that the MSI-X vector
> >> data which gets modified when SMP affinity is not tracked by the qemu_kvm.
> >> So the interrupt injection was done in load balancing fashion. Because of this
> >> interrupt LB in guest VCPUs I saw that packets for all the queues were processed
> >> by one VCPU instead 2 or 4 available.
> >> Anyway I will test the the MSI-X affinity fix also and get back with results.
> >> And I hope 82599 send/receive works. Thanks for your help.
> >
> > I pushed the v2 version to github, so you can grab it from here for
> > testing:
> >
> > git://github.com/awilliam/qemu-kvm.git
> >
> > Branch pci-assign-msix.  Thanks,
> >
> > Alex
> >



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