Re: mellanox mlx4_core and SR-IOV

Lukas Hejtmanek
2012-08-10T22:34:45Z

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:51:53PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> On 08/03/2012 02:33 AM, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> >I also tried OFED package from Mellanox which seems to have better SR-IOV
> >support (at least mlx4_ib does not complain that SR-IOV is not supported).
> >However, it does not work when SR-IOV enabled:
>
> Last I heard they were not officially providing support for SR-IOV.
> Has anyone heard otherwise from the Mellanox folks?

they speak about it for 2 years:
http://www.openfabrics.org/archives/spring2010sonoma/Monday/1.30%20Liran%20Liss%20I%3FO%20Virtualization/sriov_liss.ppt

these are modified OFED drivers which seem to contain SR-IOV code also for IB
layer.