On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:18:52PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:38:09PM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> Following patches are intended to support SR-IOV capability in the >>> Linux kernel. With these patches, people can turn a PCI device with >>> the capability into multiple ones from software perspective, which >>> will benefit KVM and achieve other purposes such as QoS, security, >>> and etc. >> Is there any actual users of this API around yet? How was it tested as >> there is no hardware to test on? Which drivers are going to have to be >> rewritten to take advantage of this new interface? > > Yes, the API is used by Intel, HP, NextIO and some other anonymous > companies as they rise questions and send me feedback. I haven't seen their > works but I guess some of drivers using SR-IOV API are going to be released > soon. Well, we can't merge infrastructure without seeing the users of that infrastructure, right? > My test was done with Intel 82576 Gigabit Ethernet Controller. The product > brief is at http://download.intel.com/design/network/ProdBrf/320025.pdf and > the spec is available at > http://download.intel.com/design/network/datashts/82576_Datasheet_v2p1.pdf Cool, do you have that driver we can see? How does it interact and handle the kvm and xen issues that have been posted? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
