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

From	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to 4KB regardless of system page size"
Date	2016-03-17 06:10 +0100
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> wrote:
> On 03/16/2016 08:45 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
>> 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?

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[RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to 4KB regardless of system page size" Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> - 2016-03-15 11:40 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com> - 2016-03-15 11:50 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 13:30 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com> - 2016-03-15 15:30 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-03-15 16:40 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> - 2016-03-16 03:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> - 2016-03-16 03:10 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com> - 2016-03-16 06:30 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> - 2016-03-16 06:50 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.com> - 2016-03-16 07:30 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> - 2016-03-16 09:40 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com> - 2016-03-16 10:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> - 2016-03-17 02:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH kernel] Revert "net/mlx4_core: Set UAR page size to  4KB regardless of system page size" Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 06:10 +0100

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