Greetings, Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) capability defined by PCI-SIG is intended to enable multiple system software to share PCI hardware resources. PCI device that supports this capability can be extended to one Physical Functions plus multiple Virtual Functions. Physical Function, which could be considered as the "real" PCI device, reflects the hardware instance and manages all physical resources. Virtual Functions are associated with a Physical Function and shares physical resources with the Physical Function. Software can control allocation of Virtual Functions via registers encapsulated in the capability. Following patches add SR-IOV capability support to the Linux kernel. With these patches, people can turn a PCI device with the capability into multiple ones from software perspective. [PATCH 1/4] PCI: export pci_read_base and add pci_update_base [PATCH 2/4] PCI: support ARI capability [PATCH 3/4] PCI: support SR-IOV capability [PATCH 4/4] PCI: document SR-IOV SR-IOV specification can be found at http://www.pcisig.com/members/downloads/specifications/iov/sr-iov1.0_11Sep07.pdf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
