[PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Sun Nov 9 11:25:05 PST 2008
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 02:44:06PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>> It's that "second" part that I'm worried about. How is that going to
>> happen? Do you have any patches that show this kind of "assignment"?
>>
>>
>
> For kvm, this is in 2.6.28-rc.
Where? I just looked and couldn't find anything, but odds are I was
looking in the wrong place :(
> Note there are two ways to assign a device to a guest:
>
> - run the VF driver in the guest: this has the advantage of best
> performance, but requires pinning all guest memory, makes live migration a
> tricky proposition, and ties the guest to the underlying hardware.
Is this what you would prefer for kvm?
> - run the VF driver in the host, and use virtio to connect the guest to the
> host: allows paging the guest and allows straightforward live migration,
> but reduces performance, and hides any features not exposed by virtio from
> the guest.
thanks,
greg k-h
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