From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Cc: igvt-g@ml01.01.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>, xudong.hao@intel.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>, Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>, vfio-users@redhat.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 11/11] igd: move igd-passthrough-isa-bridge creation to machine init Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 13:32:56 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1452256376.21093.50.camel@redhat.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1601081205330.13564@kaball.uk.xensource.com> Hi, > > That is true. Given that the only qemu-xen codebase with igd support is > > 4.7 and 4.7 hasn't been released yet, I am OK with changing the guest > > visible PCI layout. I might ask for your help in backporting the patches > > ;-) What are the 4.7 release plans btw? > One thing that I forgot to consider is that QEMU 2.5 has been released > with igd passthrough too and Xen 4.6 + QEMU 2.5 is a combination we > should support. > > However QEMU 2.5 has a serious bug > (http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=145172165010604) which probably > prevents igd passthrough from working at all. Stumbled over that one too, so my series has a (different) fix for it as well. > I asked Xudong to investigate. I am thinking that if the feature > works in 2.5, we need to support it, therefore we cannot break > migration by changing the PCI layout. I'd expect it is broken (at least for older guests). In case 2.5 works fine as-is we should be able to ditch TYPE_IGD_PASSTHROUGH_I440FX_PCI_DEVICE altogether b/c it is a no-op in 2.5 because of the bug. But lets wait for the test results ... > Otherwise if the feature doesn't work, we could take the liberty to > make the change. Do you agree? Yes. cheers, Gerd
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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Cc: igvt-g@ml01.01.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>, xudong.hao@intel.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>, Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>, vfio-users@redhat.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/11] igd: move igd-passthrough-isa-bridge creation to machine init Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 13:32:56 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1452256376.21093.50.camel@redhat.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1601081205330.13564@kaball.uk.xensource.com> Hi, > > That is true. Given that the only qemu-xen codebase with igd support is > > 4.7 and 4.7 hasn't been released yet, I am OK with changing the guest > > visible PCI layout. I might ask for your help in backporting the patches > > ;-) What are the 4.7 release plans btw? > One thing that I forgot to consider is that QEMU 2.5 has been released > with igd passthrough too and Xen 4.6 + QEMU 2.5 is a combination we > should support. > > However QEMU 2.5 has a serious bug > (http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=145172165010604) which probably > prevents igd passthrough from working at all. Stumbled over that one too, so my series has a (different) fix for it as well. > I asked Xudong to investigate. I am thinking that if the feature > works in 2.5, we need to support it, therefore we cannot break > migration by changing the PCI layout. I'd expect it is broken (at least for older guests). In case 2.5 works fine as-is we should be able to ditch TYPE_IGD_PASSTHROUGH_I440FX_PCI_DEVICE altogether b/c it is a no-op in 2.5 because of the bug. But lets wait for the test results ... > Otherwise if the feature doesn't work, we could take the liberty to > make the change. Do you agree? Yes. cheers, Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-08 12:33 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 132+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2016-01-05 11:41 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/11] igd passthrough chipset tweaks Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 01/11] pc: wire up TYPE_IGD_PASSTHROUGH_I440FX_PCI_DEVICE for !xen Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 02/11] pc: remove has_igd_gfx_passthru global Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-06 14:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-06 14:32 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-19 15:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduardo Habkost 2016-01-19 15:09 ` Eduardo Habkost 2016-01-05 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 03/11] pc: move igd support code to igd.c Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 04/11] igd: switch TYPE_IGD_PASSTHROUGH_I440FX_PCI_DEVICE to realize Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-06 14:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-06 14:32 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-23 14:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduardo Habkost 2016-01-23 14:51 ` Eduardo Habkost 2016-01-25 8:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-25 8:59 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-25 11:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-25 11:53 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-05 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 05/11] igd: TYPE_IGD_PASSTHROUGH_I440FX_PCI_DEVICE: call parent realize Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-06 14:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-06 14:41 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-06 15:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-06 15:45 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-19 15:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduardo Habkost 2016-01-19 15:13 ` Eduardo Habkost 2016-01-20 9:10 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-20 9:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-23 14:52 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduardo Habkost 2016-01-23 14:52 ` Eduardo Habkost 2016-01-05 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 06/11] igd: use defines for standard pci config space offsets Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-06 14:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-06 14:43 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-05 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 07/11] igd: revamp host config read Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-06 15:02 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-06 15:02 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-06 15:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-06 15:51 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-06 16:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-06 16:23 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-05 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 08/11] igd: add q35 support Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 09/11] igd: move igd-passthrough-isa-bridge to igd.c too Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 10/11] igd: handle igd-passthrough-isa-bridge setup in realize() Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-06 15:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-06 15:29 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-06 15:52 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-06 15:52 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 11/11] igd: move igd-passthrough-isa-bridge creation to machine init Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-05 11:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-06 15:36 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-06 15:36 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-07 7:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-07 7:38 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-07 13:10 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-07 13:10 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-07 15:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-07 15:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-08 11:20 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-08 11:20 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-08 12:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-08 12:12 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-08 12:32 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message] 2016-01-08 12:32 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-08 12:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-08 12:38 ` Stefano Stabellini 2016-01-05 13:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/11] igd passthrough chipset tweaks Michael S. Tsirkin 2016-01-05 13:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2016-01-28 19:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [vfio-users] " Alex Williamson 2016-01-28 19:35 ` Alex Williamson 2016-01-29 2:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [iGVT-g] " Kay, Allen M 2016-01-29 2:22 ` Kay, Allen M 2016-01-29 2:54 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson 2016-01-29 2:54 ` Alex Williamson 2016-01-29 6:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jike Song 2016-01-29 6:21 ` Jike Song 2016-01-29 21:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kay, Allen M 2016-01-29 21:58 ` Kay, Allen M 2016-02-02 7:07 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tian, Kevin 2016-02-02 7:07 ` Tian, Kevin 2016-02-02 19:10 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kay, Allen M 2016-02-02 19:10 ` [iGVT-g] " Kay, Allen M 2016-02-02 19:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [iGVT-g] [vfio-users] " Alex Williamson 2016-02-02 19:37 ` Alex Williamson 2016-02-02 23:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kay, Allen M 2016-02-02 23:32 ` Kay, Allen M 2016-01-29 7:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-29 7:09 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-01-29 17:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson 2016-01-29 17:59 ` Alex Williamson 2016-01-30 1:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [iGVT-g] " Kay, Allen M 2016-01-30 1:18 ` Kay, Allen M 2016-01-31 17:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson 2016-01-31 17:42 ` Alex Williamson 2016-02-02 0:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kay, Allen M 2016-02-02 0:04 ` Kay, Allen M 2016-02-02 6:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Tian, Kevin 2016-02-02 6:42 ` Tian, Kevin 2016-02-02 11:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " David Woodhouse 2016-02-02 11:50 ` David Woodhouse 2016-02-02 14:54 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson 2016-02-02 14:54 ` Alex Williamson 2016-02-02 15:06 ` [Qemu-devel] " David Woodhouse 2016-02-02 15:06 ` David Woodhouse 2016-02-02 14:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson 2016-02-02 14:38 ` Alex Williamson 2016-02-01 12:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann 2016-02-01 12:49 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-02-01 22:16 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson 2016-02-01 22:16 ` Alex Williamson 2016-02-02 7:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [vfio-users] " Gerd Hoffmann 2016-02-02 7:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-02-02 7:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [iGVT-g] " Tian, Kevin 2016-02-02 7:01 ` [iGVT-g] " Tian, Kevin 2016-02-02 8:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [iGVT-g] [vfio-users] " Gerd Hoffmann 2016-02-02 8:56 ` Gerd Hoffmann 2016-02-02 16:31 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin O'Connor 2016-02-02 16:31 ` Kevin O'Connor 2016-02-02 16:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Laszlo Ersek 2016-02-02 16:49 ` Laszlo Ersek 2016-02-02 20:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson 2016-02-02 20:18 ` Alex Williamson 2016-02-03 6:08 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tian, Kevin 2016-02-03 6:08 ` Tian, Kevin
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