From: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
To: "Timothy J. Moore" <Timothy.Moore@expidas.net>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: VT-d support proprietary NVidia/ATI GPU passthrough
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:07:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B822D37.3040308@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E5E913F540B51B4C997F7A2993168735BC95981B01@vmdc1.w3host.co.uk>
Timothy J. Moore wrote:
> Dear Xen-developers,
>
> Now that we have IGD passthough patches in the xen source tree, would it be possible to start working on support for other vendor cards?
>
Xen already implemented basic gfx passthrough a few months ago, and
supported "virtualization friendly" gfx passthrough, such as nVidia
FX3800. But for most discrete GPU, they need various hacks, such as
vBAR=pBAR.
> I know and have working the necessary patches to enable PCI/VGA Pass-through for non IGD, but it's a long way from stable -
>
> Is there a way that vendor specific resets or FLR code could be implemented that will provide a stable experience when using VGA passthrough with NVidia and plugging/unplugging and starting/rebooting DomUs?
>
yes, FLR is a problem for gfx cards which don't support standard FLR
capability. FLR is required for passthrough, but lots of existing gfx
cards don't have this capability, and only gfx vendors know how to
implement vendor specific reset.
> Can the vBAR-pBAR code that Wiedong provided be implemented in a more dynamic way? (currently requires static mem ranges)
>
Yes, the patch is experimental, and not suitable for upstream now.
Regards,
Weidong
> Thanks all, anyone who could help please shout !
>
> Tim
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-22 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-04 8:12 [PATCH 1/3] VT-d: support Intel IGD passthrough Han, Weidong
2010-02-04 17:08 ` Ian Jackson
2010-02-05 1:52 ` Weidong Han
2010-02-18 9:49 ` Isaku Yamahata
2010-02-20 7:47 ` Weidong Han
[not found] ` <E5E913F540B51B4C997F7A2993168735BC95981B01@vmdc1.w3host.co.uk>
2010-02-22 7:07 ` Weidong Han [this message]
2010-02-22 12:32 ` VT-d support proprietary NVidia/ATI GPU passthrough Timothy J. Moore
2010-02-22 16:48 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-02-23 1:16 ` Weidong Han
2010-02-23 21:08 ` Timothy J. Moore
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