From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: MSI-X not enabled for ixgbe device-passthrough
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:05:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BACDB56.4020508@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100325175446.GI1744@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Chris Wright wrote:
> * Hannes Reinecke (hare@suse.de) wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to setup a system with device-passthrough for
>> an ixgbe NIC.
>> The device itself seems to work, but it isn't using MSI-X.
>> So some more advanced features like DCB offloading etc
>> won't work.
>
> Please send the relevant dmesg from the guest when it initializes the
> device. BTW, more typical case for that NIC is to assign the VF to the
> guest, not the whole PF.
>
Yes, I know. But my kernel I'm testing with doesn't have one for ixgbe.
So I tested that one. And KVM really should enable MSI-X here,
VFs notwithstanding.
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-26 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-24 15:54 MSI-X not enabled for ixgbe device-passthrough Hannes Reinecke
2010-03-25 1:39 ` Sheng Yang
2010-03-25 15:29 ` Hannes Reinecke
2010-03-25 17:54 ` Chris Wright
2010-03-26 16:05 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2010-03-26 19:40 ` Chris Wright
2010-03-29 6:28 ` Hannes Reinecke
2010-03-29 16:46 ` Chris Wright
2010-03-29 17:09 ` Alexander Graf
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