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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Kallol Biswas <kallol@nucleodyne.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: NIC: Queue assignment to guest OS
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:47:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110419184750.GB7427@dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003801cbfb0a$de67a410$9b36ec30$@com>

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:17:17PM -0700, Kallol Biswas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     I have a requirement to assign the transmit and receive queues of a NIC
> card to different guest operating systems so that the guests can directly
> submit transmit requests to controller and receive packets from NIC
> controller without going through a middle layer.  The NIC controller is not
> SRIOV capable and there are a few MSI-X vectors available.

OK. So you want to "export" the rx and tx queue (where each queue is associated
with an MSI-X) in the guest.

> 
>  
> 
> What would be the best way to implement the requirement in Xen? I am new to
> Xen but have experience in a similar virtualization framework.

How did you do this in other virtualization frameworks?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-19 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-15  1:17 NIC: Queue assignment to guest OS Kallol Biswas
2011-04-19 18:47 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2011-04-19 18:50   ` Kallol Biswas
2011-04-19 20:45     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-04-19 23:24       ` Kallol Biswas

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