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From: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	pkg-xen-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org,
	Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
Subject: Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] ioatdma: Boot process hangs then reboots when using Xen + Linux 3.2
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:21:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120302162159.GB31683@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABE8wwt8Lngy=-iL7QGCofy0nW5-q4VJDS_ovEr96fGdYm72ew@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 10:42:44PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> WARN_ON may work, but then kernel may be subject random hangs from missed
> i/o completions.

Why is that? Currently it just dies if was triggered via interrupt and
for some reason no active descriptor was found.

>                   Is xen32 using vt-d?

Yes. Xen can use VT-D.

>                                         Just wondering if writes from ioat
> device are getting misdirected.

How do VT-D and ioat interact?

Bastian

-- 
Too much of anything, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing.
		-- Kirk, "The Trouble with Tribbles", stardate 4525.6

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-02 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20120127144737.GA27750@andromeda.dapyr.net>
     [not found]   ` <20120219223125.GA820@burratino>
     [not found]     ` <20120220181618.GD17566@burratino>
     [not found]       ` <4F4891B8.9050008@goirand.fr>
2012-03-02  5:57         ` Jonathan Nieder
     [not found]           ` <CABE8wwt8Lngy=-iL7QGCofy0nW5-q4VJDS_ovEr96fGdYm72ew@mail.gmail.com>
2012-03-02 16:21             ` Bastian Blank [this message]
2012-03-02 16:44               ` [Pkg-xen-devel] " Dan Williams
2012-03-02 17:57                 ` Bastian Blank
2012-03-02 19:31                   ` Dan Williams
2012-03-02 20:08                     ` Bastian Blank
2012-03-02 20:16                       ` Dan Williams
2012-03-02 20:56                         ` Bastian Blank
2012-03-02 21:17                           ` Dan Williams
2012-03-05 15:26                     ` Thomas Goirand
2012-03-05 15:38                       ` Dan Williams
2012-03-06  9:20                         ` Thomas Goirand
2012-03-06 10:33                           ` Bastian Blank
2012-03-06 14:14                           ` Dan Williams
2012-03-06 14:39                             ` Ian Campbell
2012-03-13 16:49                               ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-03-11 22:06                             ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-23 23:55                               ` Dan Williams
2012-03-24  1:29                                 ` William Dauchy
2012-03-24  2:25                                 ` William Dauchy
2012-03-24  3:34                                   ` Williams, Dan J

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