From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50692) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehcmg-0004Dy-Sz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:57:47 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehcmd-0001tc-24 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:57:47 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39814) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehcmc-0001t7-SF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:57:42 -0500 References: <20180201205511.19198-1-marcel@redhat.com> <20180201205511.19198-4-marcel@redhat.com> <2019319026.1970662.1517573339806@mail.yahoo.com> From: Marcel Apfelbaum Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 14:27:53 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2019319026.1970662.1517573339806@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V9 3/4] pvrdma: initial implementation List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Dotan Barak , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Cc: "ehabkost@redhat.com" , "yuval.shaia@oracle.com" , "pbonzini@redhat.com" , "mst@redhat.com" , "cohuck@redhat.com" , Dotan Barak On 02/02/2018 14:08, Dotan Barak wrote: > Reviewed-by: Dotan Barak > The Mellanox review for the RDMA code is very much appreciated! Thanks Dotan, we know you put much effort into it and the V9 re-spin quality just went up :) Marcel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Marcel Apfelbaum > *To:* qemu-devel@nongnu.org > *Cc:* ehabkost@redhat.com; yuval.shaia@oracle.com; marcel@redhat.com; pbonzini@redhat.com; mst@redhat.com; > cohuck@redhat.com; dotanb75@yahoo.com > *Sent:* Thursday, February 1, 2018 10:55 PM > *Subject:* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V9 3/4] pvrdma: initial implementation > > From: Yuval Shaia > > > PVRDMA is the QEMU implementation of VMware's paravirtualized RDMA device. > It works with its Linux Kernel driver AS IS, no need for any special guest > modifications. > > While it complies with the VMware device, it can also communicate with bare > metal RDMA-enabled machines and does not require an RDMA HCA in the host, it > can work with Soft-RoCE (rxe). > > It does not require the whole guest RAM to be pinned allowing memory > over-commit and, even if not implemented yet, migration support will be > possible with some HW assistance. > > Signed-off-by: Yuval Shaia > > Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum > > > >