Re: [Xen-devel] Revisit VT-d asynchronous flush issue

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 02.11.15 at 09:03, <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Based on above information, we propose to continue spin-timeout
> model w/ some adjustment, which fixes current timeout concern
> and also allows limited ATS support in a light way:
> 
> 1) reduce spin timeout to 1ms, which can be boot-time changed
> up to 10ms.
> 
> 2) if timeout expires, kill the VM which the target device is assigned 
> to. Optionally hypervisor may mark device non-assignable.
> 
> It works for devices w/o ATS. It works for integrated devices w/ ATS.
> It might or might not work for discrete devices w/ ATS, but we can
> re-evaluate the gain vs. software complexity of async flush until we 
> see many discrete devices breaking the timeout assumptions in the 
> future.
> 
> Thoughts?

Yes, let's take this approach as a first step at least.

Jan


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