Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] ioatdma: Boot process hangs then reboots whenusing Xen + Linux 3.2

From: Bastian Blank
Date: Fri Mar 02 2012 - 11:28:16 EST


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

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