From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Zhao, Yu" Subject: Re: Status of SR-IOV for Xen? Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:20:51 +0800 Message-ID: <4975EBD3.4000100@intel.com> References: <4974B4C1.3060605@amd.com> <20090120011543.GB2758@verge.net.au> <4975E311.1080806@amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4975E311.1080806@amd.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Wei Huang Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Simon Horman , Keir Fraser List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org I'll respin those patches and resubmit them later. One thing is that SR-IOV depends on MSI/MSI-x but they are disabled as Keir said in thread 'x86: Disable MSI as it seems to be triggering ASSERT at irq.c:269'. Wei Huang wrote: > 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 >> >> >