Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:40:21 -0600 | From | Anthony Liguori <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support |
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Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:47:41AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >> I don't think we really know what the One True Usage model is for VF >> devices. Chris Wright has some ideas, I have some ideas and Yu Zhao has >> some ideas. I bet there's other people who have other ideas too. >> > > I'd love to hear those ideas. >
We've been talking about avoiding hardware passthrough entirely and just backing a virtio-net backend driver by a dedicated VF in the host. That avoids a huge amount of guest-facing complexity, let's migration Just Work, and should give the same level of performance.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Rumor has it, there is some Xen code floating around to support this > already, is that true? > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
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