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From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/pci: try to reserve MCFG areas earlier
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:13:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65b8d74a-2f7b-a257-a750-9dada5206f01@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74c9d2cc-a528-2cec-099e-0d803aeace6f@citrix.com>

On 11.09.2019 03:15, Igor Druzhinin wrote:
> Another thing that I implied by "not supporting" but want to explicitly
> call out is that currently Xen will refuse reserving any MCFG area
> unless it actually existed in MCFG table at boot. I don't clearly
> understand reasoning behind it but it might be worth relaxing at least
> size matching restriction on Xen side now with this change.

I guess it's because no-one had a system were it would be needed,
and hence could be tested.

Jan

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From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/pci: try to reserve MCFG areas earlier
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 11:13:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <65b8d74a-2f7b-a257-a750-9dada5206f01@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74c9d2cc-a528-2cec-099e-0d803aeace6f@citrix.com>

On 11.09.2019 03:15, Igor Druzhinin wrote:
> Another thing that I implied by "not supporting" but want to explicitly
> call out is that currently Xen will refuse reserving any MCFG area
> unless it actually existed in MCFG table at boot. I don't clearly
> understand reasoning behind it but it might be worth relaxing at least
> size matching restriction on Xen side now with this change.

I guess it's because no-one had a system were it would be needed,
and hence could be tested.

Jan

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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-04  0:20 [PATCH] xen/pci: try to reserve MCFG areas earlier Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-04  0:20 ` [Xen-devel] " Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-04  9:08 ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-04  9:08   ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-09-04 11:36   ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-04 11:36     ` [Xen-devel] " Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-04 12:09     ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-04 12:09       ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-09-06 22:30 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-06 22:30   ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-06 23:00   ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-06 23:00     ` [Xen-devel] " Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-08 18:28     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-08 18:28       ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-08 21:11       ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-08 21:11         ` [Xen-devel] " Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-08 23:30         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-08 23:30           ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-08 23:37           ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-08 23:37             ` [Xen-devel] " Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-09 19:19             ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-09 19:19               ` [Xen-devel] " Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-09 21:48               ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-09 21:48                 ` [Xen-devel] " Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-10  1:47                 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-10  1:47                   ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-10  9:46                   ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-10  9:46                     ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-10  9:55                     ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-10  9:55                       ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-10 10:08                       ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-10 10:08                         ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-10 17:48                     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-10 17:48                       ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-10 20:36                       ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-10 20:36                         ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-10 21:19                         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-10 21:19                           ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-11  1:15                           ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-11  1:15                             ` Igor Druzhinin
2019-09-11  9:13                             ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2019-09-11  9:13                               ` Jan Beulich
2019-09-12 17:33                             ` Boris Ostrovsky
2019-09-12 17:33                               ` Boris Ostrovsky

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