From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 0/7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:33:30 -0700 Message-ID: <20090306193329.GB25995@parisc-linux.org> References: <1235112888-9524-1-git-send-email-yu.zhao@intel.com> <49A3D04A.9010501@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Yu Zhao , jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49A3D04A.9010501@redhat.com> Sender: linux-pci-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:47:38PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Do those patches allow using a VF on the host (in other words, does the > kernel emulate config space accesses)? SR-IOV hardware handles config space accesses to virtual functions. No kernel changes needed for that aspect of it. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."