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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: ravi kerur <rkerur@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Q on ioctl support in netfront/netback
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:40:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100217164045.GA18387@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dfc283f41002170819m7f150ba7s6729de4820fa238e@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:19:14AM -0800, ravi kerur wrote:
> Hi Konrad,
> 
> Using PCI passthrough(I believe it is via config file changes) prevents
> other domU's accessing the NIC correct? If I use it, would the network

That is correct.

> transmit/receive still happen via netfront/netback drivers?

If you have two NICs, where one of them is PCI passthrough and
the other dedicated to the guests, then the second can serve as
netback/netfront.

Thought I wonder if you can have the netback in the guest. This
way you could fiddle with your registers in one domain, and export
a network interface (vif) to the other guests from the domain that
owns the PCI device.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-17 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-15  2:23 Q on ioctl support in netfront/netback ravi kerur
2010-02-15  9:40 ` Paul Durrant
2010-02-15 15:54   ` ravi kerur
2010-02-16 18:14     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-02-17 16:19       ` ravi kerur
2010-02-17 16:27         ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-02-17 16:40         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2010-02-17 20:00           ` ravi kerur
2010-02-17  3:26     ` Daniel Stodden
2010-02-17 15:44       ` ravi kerur

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