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. 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 Regards, Yu _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
