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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support
Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:44:06PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> Greg KH wrote:
>>
>>> It's that "second" part that I'm worried about. How is that going to
>>> happen? Do you have any patches that show this kind of "assignment"?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> For kvm, this is in 2.6.28-rc.
>>
>
> Where? I just looked and couldn't find anything, but odds are I was
> looking in the wrong place :(
>
>

arch/x86/kvm/vtd.c: iommu integration (allows assigning the device's
memory resources)
virt/kvm/irq*: interrupt redirection (allows assigning the device's
interrupt resources)

the rest (pci config space, pio redirection) are in userspace.

>> Note there are two ways to assign a device to a guest:
>>
>> - run the VF driver in the guest: this has the advantage of best
>> performance, but requires pinning all guest memory, makes live migration a
>> tricky proposition, and ties the guest to the underlying hardware.
>>
>
> Is this what you would prefer for kvm?
>
>

It's not my personal preference, but it is a supported configuration.
For some use cases it is the only one that makes sense.

Again, VF-in-guest and VF-in-host both have their places. And since
Linux can be both guest and host, it's best if the VF driver knows
nothing about SR-IOV; it's just a pci driver. The PF driver should
emulate anything that SR-IOV does not provide (like missing pci config
space).

--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.



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