[vfio-users] GPU passthrough errors with linux 5.1 and newer

Alex Williamson alex.williamson at redhat.com
Thu Aug 15 15:40:22 UTC 2019


On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 19:20:56 +0200
"Zoltán Kővágó" <dirty.ice.hu at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm attaching the workaround I use with linux 5.2.1 and a w8.1 guest. 
> I'm not saying you should use it, as it probably has a negative effect 
> on performance (I never benchmarked it, but I didn't notice anything 
> with older games) but at least you could confirm whether you have the 
> same problem or not.

There's a workaround posted upstream in the same spirit as this.  The
root cause is still not understood, but testing of the workaround would
be appreciated:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/8/15/606

Thanks,
Alex




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