Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to 4KB regardless of system page size"

From: Or Gerlitz
Date: Thu Mar 17 2016 - 01:05:21 EST


On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/16/2016 08:45 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh. ok. It also looks like even with the reverted patch, mlx4 VF does not
>>> work in a guest:
>>
>>
>> So where is the breakage point for you? does 4.4 works? if not, what?

> Ah, my bad. It is unrelated to the kernel version.
> I tried passing a PF to a guest while its VFs are already passed to another
> guest and see how exactly it blows up (AER/EEH were thrown but the host
> recovered => good) but this left the device in a weird state when I could
> not use VF in a guest anymore but it seemed to keep working on the host.

> It seems like the actual adapter does not reset completely when the machine
> is rebooted, I had unplug/replug power cables to fix this.

So to make sure, now things works fine with the patch reverted?