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Authored by shurd on Oct 26 2017, 9:17 PM.
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Summary

It was reported on the community call that with
hw.pci.enable_msix=0, iflib would enable MSI-X on the device and attempt
to use it, which caused issues. Test the sysctl explicitly and do not
enable MSI-X if it's disabled globally.

Test Plan

Have reporter test, test for regressions on physical and
virtual systems.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 26 2017, 11:33 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.

Is this really better than just exposing whatever variable hw.pci.enable_msix corresponds to?

In D12805#266524, @cem wrote:

Is this really better than just exposing whatever variable hw.pci.enable_msix corresponds to?

It's certainly less intrusive. Until I understand exactly why iflib is rewriting PCIM_MSIXCTRL_MSIX_ENABLE in the PCI config register (the comment points to virtualized environments), I want to keep it simple to delete this change if I end up deleting the call to pci_write_config().