netdev - Re: SR-IOV problem with Intel 82599EB (not enough MMIO resources for SR-IOV)

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Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2012 08:56:56 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	Jason Gao <pkill.2012@...il.com>,
	"Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SR-IOV problem with Intel 82599EB (not enough MMIO resources for SR-IOV)

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
> [+ linux-pci, Yinghai]
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Jason Gao <pkill.2012@...il.com> wrote:
>>> The BIOS in your machine doesn't support SR-IOV.  You'll need to ask the manufacturer for a BIOS upgrade, if in fact one is available.  Sometimes they're not.
>>
>> very thanks Greg,my server Dell R710 with latest BIOS version and
>> option for SR-IOV(SR-IOV Global Enable->Enabled)  opened,I'm confused
>> that Does R710 provide full support for SR-IOV, kernel or  ixgbe
>> driver's bug? but I'm not sure where the problem lies,anyone has any
>> experience about this?   .
>
> Linux normally uses the resource assignments done by the BIOS, but it
> is possible for the kernel to reassign those.  We don't have good
> automatic support for that yet, but on a recent upstream kernel, you
> can try "pci=realloc".  I doubt this option is in CentOS 6.3, though.
>
> If an upstream kernel with "pci=realloc" still doesn't work, please
> post the entire dmesg log.

Even better, upstream kernel will enable realloc automatically if it
finds some SRIOV BAR is not assigned.
related logic is in pci_realloc_detect().

BTW, we may need another patch about realloc.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git;a=patch;h=afb9975bddd92b17c2f9859676ce521e2e014997

>From afb9975bddd92b17c2f9859676ce521e2e014997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 19:15:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] PCI: Add root bus children dev's res to fail list

We can stop trying according to try number now and do not need to use
root_bus checking as stop sign anymore.
In extreme case we could need to reallocate resource for device just
under root bus.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/pci/setup-bus.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c b/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
index 1e808ca..9e625d84 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/setup-bus.c
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static void
assign_requested_resources_sorted(struct list_head *head,
 		idx = res - &dev_res->dev->resource[0];
 		if (resource_size(res) &&
 		    pci_assign_resource(dev_res->dev, idx)) {
-			if (fail_head && !pci_is_root_bus(dev_res->dev->bus)) {
+			if (fail_head) {
 				/*
 				 * if the failed res is for ROM BAR, and it will
 				 * be enabled later, don't add it to the list
-- 
1.7.7.6
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