From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58741) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn3Ft-0003OW-8N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:33:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn3Fp-0003i5-Vv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:33:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58410) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn3Fp-0003hm-Q4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:32:57 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:32:54 +0100 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Message-ID: <20151016113254.GZ29330@redhat.com> References: <1444837878-11602-1-git-send-email-knut.omang@oracle.com> <1444837878-11602-4-git-send-email-knut.omang@oracle.com> <20151016112940-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <1444989399.4614.16.camel@oracle.com> <20151016135118-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151016135118-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 3/4] pcie: Add some SR/IOV API documentation in docs/pcie_sriov.txt List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Eduardo Habkost , Marcel Apfelbaum , Knut Omang , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex Williamson , "Gonglei (Arei)" , Jan Kiszka , Paolo Bonzini , Dotan Barak , Richard Henderson On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 01:54:48PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:56:39AM +0200, Knut Omang wrote: > > But feel free to just skip this patch, the most important is to get the > > generic SR/IOV code in there for others to use. > > That's my question. Is it for others to use or are you going to use it > youself? > > If you plan to e.g. complete igb to the point where Linux can use it, > then I'll merge this. > BTW for igb it might be easier to copy out e1000 code, at least that's what > linux guest drivers did. > > Alternatively, if someone on list is interested in using this, > please review and ack. An emulated SR-IOV-capable network card would be useful for debugging OpenStack's SR-IOV drivers. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v