Hello,
> For a physical PCI device that is passed through to a Hyper-V guest VM,
> current code specifies the VMBus ring buffer size as 4 pages. But this
> is an inappropriate dependency, since the amount of ring buffer space
> needed is unrelated to PAGE_SIZE. For example, on x86 the ring buffer
> size ends up as 16 Kbytes, while on ARM64 with 64 Kbyte pages, the ring
> size bloats to 256 Kbytes. The ring buffer for PCI pass-thru devices
> is used for only a few messages during device setup and removal, so any
> space above a few Kbytes is wasted.
>
> Fix this by declaring the ring buffer size to be a fixed 16 Kbytes.
> Furthermore, use the VMBUS_RING_SIZE() macro so that the ring buffer
> header is properly accounted for, and so the size is rounded up to a
> page boundary, using the page size for which the kernel is built. While
> w/64 Kbyte pages this results in a 64 Kbyte ring buffer header plus a
> 64 Kbyte ring buffer, that's the smallest possible with that page size.
> It's still 128 Kbytes better than the current code.
Applied to controller/hyperv, thank you!
[1/1] PCI: hv: Fix ring buffer size calculation
https://git.kernel.org/pci/pci/c/192c0b72019f
Krzysztof
