Re: [PATCH] hv: fix msi affinity when device requests all possible CPU's

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On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 16:38:19 -0500
Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 04:22:04PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > When Intel 10G (ixgbevf) is passed to a Hyper-V guest with SR-IOV,
> > the driver requests affinity with all possible CPU's (0-239) even
> > those CPU's are not online (and will never be). Because of this the device
> > is unable to correctly get MSI interrupt's setup.
> > 
> > This was caused by the change in 4.12 that converted this affinity
> > into all possible CPU's (0-31) but then host reports
> > an error since this is larger than the number of online cpu's.
> > 
> > Previously, this worked (up to 4.12-rc1) because only online cpu's
> > would be put in mask passed to the host.
> > 
> > This patch applies only to 4.12.
> > The driver in linux-next needs a a different fix because of the changes
> > to PCI host protocol version.  
> 
> If Linus decides to postpone v4.12 a week, I can ask him to pull this.  But
> I suspect he will release v4.12 today.  In that case, I don't know what to
> do with this other than maybe send it to Greg for a -stable release.

Looks like this will have to be queued for 4.12 stable.



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