From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [SR-IOV driver example 0/3] introduction Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:14:48 -0500 Message-ID: <492DAE38.3050809@garzik.org> References: <20081121183605.GA7810@yzhao12-linux.sh.intel.com> <20081126140303.GA13641@yzhao12-linux.sh.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" , "greg@kroah.com" , "matthew@wil.cx" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" To: Yu Zhao Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:41842 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752404AbYKZUPA (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:15:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081126140303.GA13641@yzhao12-linux.sh.intel.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Yu Zhao wrote: > SR-IOV drivers of Intel 82576 NIC are available. There are two parts > of the drivers: Physical Function driver and Virtual Function driver. > The PF driver is based on the IGB driver and is used to control PF to > allocate hardware specific resources and interface with the SR-IOV core. > The VF driver is a new NIC driver that is same as the traditional PCI > device driver. It works in both the host and the guest (Xen and KVM) > environment. > > These two drivers are testing versions and they are *only* intended to > show how to use SR-IOV API. > > Intel 82576 NIC specification can be found at: > http://download.intel.com/design/network/datashts/82576_Datasheet_v2p1.pdf > > [SR-IOV driver example 1/3] PF driver: allocate hardware specific resource > [SR-IOV driver example 2/3] PF driver: integrate with SR-IOV core > [SR-IOV driver example 3/3] VF driver tar ball Please copy netdev@vger.kernel.org on all network-related patches. This is where the network developers live, and all patches on this list are automatically archived for review and handling at http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/ Jeff