On Saturday 27 September 2008, Zhao, Yu 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 can benefit > KVM and achieve other purposes such as QoS, security, etc. sounds great, i think some Infiniband HBAs have this capability; they even suggested using on Xen for faster (no hypervisor intervention) communication between DomU's on the same box. (and transparently to out of the box, of course) does it need an IOMMU (VT-d), or the whole magic is done by the PCI device? -- Javier
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