bhyve: disable msi and msix on virtio reset?
Andriy Gapon
avg at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 12 12:28:58 UTC 2016
A write of a zero to VTCFG_R_STATUS initiates a virtio device reset via
vc_reset. Typically this means a call to vi_reset_dev() which resets a
bunch of fields in virtio_softc, but does not touch a corresponding
pci_devinst (hanging off vs_pi) at all. Among other things this means
that PCI MSI and MSI-X states remain unchanged. One of the consequences
is that we keep using virtio_config_size of 24 if MSI-X is enabled.
Should the virtio status reset also reset the PCI state?
One practical problem that I see is with illumos fast reboot where the
illumos virtio driver assumes that the status reset is sufficient to
return a device to a state like after a clean (full) reboot.
Thank you.
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Andriy Gapon
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