From: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: "jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org" <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 0/7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:36:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090225013618.GA12349@yzhao-otc.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A3D04A.9010501@redhat.com>
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 06:47:38PM +0800, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Yu Zhao wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Following patches are intended to support SR-IOV capability in the
> > Linux kernel. With these patches, people can turn a PCI device with
> > the capability into multiple ones from software perspective, which
> > will benefit KVM and achieve other purposes such as QoS, security,
> > and etc.
> >
>
> Do those patches allow using a VF on the host (in other words, does the
> kernel emulate config space accesses)?
Yes, if a VF's driver is loaded in the host, the VF works the same way
as normal PCI device.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-25 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-20 6:54 [PATCH v10 0/7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support Yu Zhao
2009-02-20 6:54 ` [PATCH v10 1/7] PCI: initialize and release SR-IOV capability Yu Zhao
2009-03-06 20:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-03-06 22:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-03-06 23:31 ` Duyck, Alexander H
2009-03-07 2:38 ` Greg KH
2009-03-10 1:19 ` Yu Zhao
2009-03-11 4:36 ` Greg KH
2009-03-09 8:12 ` Yu Zhao
2009-02-20 6:54 ` [PATCH v10 2/7] PCI: restore saved SR-IOV state Yu Zhao
2009-03-06 20:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-02-20 6:54 ` [PATCH v10 3/7] PCI: reserve bus range for SR-IOV device Yu Zhao
2009-03-06 20:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-03-09 8:13 ` Yu Zhao
2009-03-09 18:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-03-09 18:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-02-20 6:54 ` [PATCH v10 4/7] PCI: add SR-IOV API for Physical Function driver Yu Zhao
2009-03-06 20:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-03-06 21:48 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-03-09 8:29 ` Yu Zhao
2009-03-07 2:40 ` Greg KH
2009-03-09 8:25 ` Yu Zhao
2009-03-09 19:39 ` Greg KH
2009-03-10 1:37 ` Yu Zhao
2009-03-11 4:34 ` Greg KH
2009-02-20 6:54 ` [PATCH v10 5/7] PCI: handle SR-IOV Virtual Function Migration Yu Zhao
2009-03-06 21:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-03-09 8:28 ` Yu Zhao
2009-02-20 6:54 ` [PATCH v10 6/7] PCI: document SR-IOV sysfs entries Yu Zhao
2009-03-06 21:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-03-06 22:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-02-20 6:54 ` [PATCH v10 7/7] PCI: manual for SR-IOV user and driver developer Yu Zhao
2009-03-06 21:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-02-24 10:47 ` [PATCH v10 0/7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support Avi Kivity
2009-02-25 1:36 ` Yu Zhao [this message]
2009-03-06 19:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-03-08 14:30 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-08 15:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-03-09 0:45 ` Greg KH
2009-03-09 3:42 ` Yang, Sheng
2009-03-09 4:35 ` Yang, Sheng
2009-03-09 13:45 ` Avi Kivity
2009-03-06 19:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-03-07 2:34 ` Greg KH
2009-03-10 1:11 ` Yu Zhao
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