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    vfio/pci: Add option to disable GeForce quirks · db32d0f4
    Alex Williamson 提交于
    These quirks are necessary for GeForce, but not for Quadro/GRID/Tesla
    assignment.  Leaving them enabled is fully functional and provides the
    most compatibility, but due to the unique NVIDIA MSI ACK behavior[1],
    it also introduces latency in re-triggering the MSI interrupt.  This
    overhead is typically negligible, but has been shown to adversely
    affect some (very) high interrupt rate applications.  This adds the
    vfio-pci device option "x-no-geforce-quirks=" which can be set to
    "on" to disable this additional overhead.
    
    A follow-on optimization for GeForce might be to make use of an
    ioeventfd to allow KVM to trigger an irqfd in the kernel vfio-pci
    driver, avoiding the bounce through userspace to handle this device
    write.
    
    [1] Background: the NVIDIA driver has been observed to issue a write
    to the MMIO mirror of PCI config space in BAR0 in order to allow the
    MSI interrupt for the device to retrigger.  Older reports indicated a
    write of 0xff to the (read-only) MSI capability ID register, while
    more recently a write of 0x0 is observed at config space offset 0x704,
    non-architected, extended config space of the device (BAR0 offset
    0x88704).  Virtualization of this range is only required for GeForce.
    Signed-off-by: NAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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