From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Huang Subject: Re: Status of SR-IOV for Xen? Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:43:29 -0600 Message-ID: <4975E311.1080806@amd.com> References: <4974B4C1.3060605@amd.com> <20090120011543.GB2758@verge.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090120011543.GB2758@verge.net.au> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Simon Horman Cc: yu.zhao@intel.com, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Keir Fraser List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org It is better not to duplicate the efforts if Yu Zhao is working on it. Otherwise, I would be interested on it too. -Wei Simon Horman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:13:37AM -0600, Wei Huang wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Any further update on SR-IOV support for Xen? Are we going to include > > this feature soon? > > I am also interested in this and would be willing to do some work > on breaking out the patches to address Jan Beulich's concerns[1] > about accreditation. And to bring the patches up to date with the most > recent Linux patches. The main problem that I see with the latter > that 2.6.18.8's PCI stack is now quite old, so using that as > a target would be more work than for instance using the paravirt ops > work that Jeremy Fitzhardinge has been working on. > > [1] http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-09/msg00965.html > > -- > Simon Horman > VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., Sydney, Australia Satellite Office > H: www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: www.valinux.co.jp/en > >