On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 02:28:39PM -0700, Andres Freund wrote: > Hi, > > On 2022-08-15 17:04:10 -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > So virtio has a queue_size register. When read, it will give you > > originally the maximum queue size. Normally we just read it and > > use it as queue size. > > > > However, when queue memory allocation fails, and unconditionally with a > > network device with the problematic patch, driver is asking the > > hypervisor to make the ring smaller by writing a smaller value into this > > register. > > > > I suspect that what happens is hypervisor still uses the original value > > somewhere. > > It looks more like the host is never told about the changed size for legacy > devices... > > Indeed, adding a vp_legacy_set_queue_size() & call to it to setup_vq(), makes > 5.19 + restricting queue sizes to 1024 boot again. Interesting, the register is RO in the legacy interface. And to be frank I can't find where is vp_legacy_set_queue_size even implemented. It's midnight here too ... > I'd bet that it also would > fix 6.0rc1, but I'm running out of time to test that. > > Greetings, > > Andres Freund Yes I figured this out too. And I was able to reproduce on qemu now. Andres thanks a lot for the help! I'm posting a new patchset reverting all the handing of resize restrictions, I think we should rethink it for the next release. Thanks everyone for the help! -- MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
