The PCI spec recommends devices use additional alignment for MSI-X
data structures to allow software to map them to separate processor
pages. One advantage of doing this is that we can emulate those data
structures without a significant performance impact to the operation
of the device. Some devices fail to implement that suggestion and
assigned device performance suffers.
One such case of this is a Mellanox MT27500 series, ConnectX-3 VF,
where the MSI-X vector table and PBA are aligned on separate 4K
pages. If PBA emulation is enabled, performance suffers. It's not
clear how much value we get from PBA emulation, but the solution here
is to only lazily enable the emulated PBA when a masked MSI-X vector
fires. We then attempt to more aggresively disable the PBA memory
region any time a vector is unmasked. The expectation is then that
a typical VM will run entirely with PBA emulation disabled, and only
when used is that emulation re-enabled.
Reported-by: Shyam Kaushik <shyam.kaushik@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Shyam Kaushik <shyam.kaushik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Specifying an emulated PCI vendor/device ID can be useful for testing
various quirk paths, even though the behavior and functionality of
the device with bogus IDs is fully unsupportable. We need to use a
uint32_t for the vendor/device IDs, even though the registers
themselves are only 16-bit in order to be able to determine whether
the value is valid and user set.
The same support is added for subsystem vendor/device ID, though these
have the possibility of being useful and supported for more than a
testing tool. An emulated platform might want to impose their own
subsystem IDs or at least hide the physical subsystem ID. Windows
guests will often reinstall drivers due to a change in subsystem IDs,
something that VM users may want to avoid. Of course careful
attention would be required to ensure that guest drivers do not rely
on the subsystem ID as a basis for device driver quirks.
All of these options are added using the standard experimental option
prefix and should not be considered stable.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Simplify access to commonly referenced PCI vendor and device ID by
caching it on the VFIOPCIDevice struct.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
This is just another quirk, for reset rather than affecting memory
regions. Move it to our new quirks file.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
VFIOQuirk hosts a single memory region and a fixed set of data fields
that try to handle all the quirk cases, but end up making those that
don't exactly match really confusing. This patch introduces a struct
intended to provide more flexibility and simpler code. VFIOQuirk is
stripped to its basics, an opaque data pointer for quirk specific
data and a pointer to an array of MemoryRegions with a counter. This
still allows us to have common teardown routines, but adds much
greater flexibility to support multiple memory regions and quirk
specific data structures that are easier to maintain. The existing
VFIOQuirk is transformed into VFIOLegacyQuirk, which further patches
will eliminate entirely.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Create a vendor:device ID helper that we'll also use as we rework the
rest of the quirks. Re-reading the config entries, even if we get
more blacklist entries, is trivial overhead and only incurred during
device setup. There's no need to typedef the blacklist structure,
it's a static private data type used once. The elements get bumped
up to uint32_t to avoid future maintenance issues if PCI_ANY_ID gets
used for a blacklist entry (avoiding an actual hardware match). Our
test loop is also crying out to be simplified as a for loop.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
