At the moment we unconditionally avoid mapping MSIX data of a BAR and emulate MSIX table in QEMU. However it is 1) not always necessary as a platform may provide a paravirt interface for MSIX configuration; 2) can affect the speed of MMIO access by emulating them in QEMU when frequently accessed registers share same system page with MSIX data, this is particularly a problem for systems with the page size bigger than 4KB. A new capability - VFIO_REGION_INFO_CAP_MSIX_MAPPABLE - has been added to the kernel [1] which tells the userspace that mapping of the MSIX data is possible now. This makes use of it so from now on QEMU tries mapping the entire BAR as a whole and emulate MSIX on top of that. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a32295c612c57990d17fb0f41e7134394b2f35f6 Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> |
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