Re: [PATCH] PCI/IOV: Skip initializing the base addresses from the VF config space

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Mon Mar 19 2018 - 15:58:12 EST


On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 05:33:10AM +0100, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> Per PCIe r4.0, sec 9.3.4.1.11, the BARs registers from the VF config space
> are all RO Zero for PCI VFs. So just skip reading them for VFs.
>
> This is an optimization when enabling SR-IOV on a device with many VFs.
>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Suggested-by: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to pci/virtualization for v4.17, thanks!

> ---
> drivers/pci/probe.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/probe.c b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> index a96837e..7204d46 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/probe.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/probe.c
> @@ -329,6 +329,10 @@ static void pci_read_bases(struct pci_dev *dev, unsigned int howmany, int rom)
> if (dev->non_compliant_bars)
> return;
>
> + /* Per PCIe r4.0, sec 9.3.4.1.11, the VF BARs are all RO Zero */
> + if (dev->is_virtfn)
> + return;
> +
> for (pos = 0; pos < howmany; pos++) {
> struct resource *res = &dev->resource[pos];
> reg = PCI_BASE_ADDRESS_0 + (pos << 2);
> --
> 2.7.4
>