On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Dennis Schridde <dennis.schridde at uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > Hello! > > I investigating the virtualisation abilities of current AMD FirePro hardware; > specifically how to securely pass a share of a GPU to one application (a Rkt/ > Docker container). I already read vfio.txt and pci-iov-howto.txt, but they do > not answer my questions. I was unable to find documentation on the process > online, either. > > 1. How do I create VFs from a AMD FirePro PF? I saw an example using VMWare > ESXi tools, where it is possible to specify RAM size and time-share, but I > have not seen how that translates to modifying /sys/bus/pci/..., which is the > method recommended for SR-IOV devices in pci-iov-howto.txt. > > 2. After having created VFs, is it possible to bind these to the host's amdgpu > driver, so that I get multiple /dev/dri/card* device nodes? > > 3. Will passing these /dev/dri/card* device nodes into a Rkt/Docker container > be enough for the AMD Radeon Pro OpenGL runtime to be able to use that card? SR-IOV support is not yet upstream for Linux. Alex > > Best regards, > Dennis Schridde > -- > Heidelberg University Computing Centre > Service division: Future IT - Research & Education > > Tel. +49 6221 54-4519, Fax +49 6221 54-5581 > dennis.schridde at uni-heidelberg.de > > http://www.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/ > > Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg > Universitätsrechenzentrum > Im Neuenheimer Feld 293, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany > _______________________________________________ > amd-gfx mailing list > amd-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/amd-gfx >
