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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: 82599 SR-IOV with passthrough
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:58:55 +0200
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16/10/2013 14:18, jigsaw :
> Therefore, to add support for multiple queues per VF, we have to at
> least fix the PF driver, then add support in DPDK's VF driver.

You're right, Linux PF driver have to be updated to properly manage 
multiple queues per VF. Then the guest can be tested with DPDK or with Linux 
driver (ixgbe_vf).

Note that there are 2 versions of Linux driver for ixgbe: kernel.org and 
sourceforge.net (supporting many kernel versions).

-- 
Thomas