On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 04:30:16PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:47:38PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > >>Do those patches allow using a VF on the host (in other words, does the > >>kernel emulate config space accesses)? > > > >SR-IOV hardware handles config space accesses to virtual functions. No > >kernel changes needed for that aspect of it. > > Patches 2 and 3 of the patchset that enables SR/IOV in kvm [1] suggest > that at the config space is only partially implemented. > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/29034 I believe Red Hat are now members of the PCI SIG, you really should download the SR-IOV spec that Yu Zhao keeps pointing at. It's going to be very hard to have a sensible discussion if you haven't read it. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
