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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:55:47 +0800 From: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@...el.com> To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> Cc: "linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>, "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/8] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support Hi Matthew, Can you please take a look at this new version? I'd like to make sure that all concerns are addressed and I didn't miss something :-) Thanks, Yu On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:25:41PM +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. > > SR-IOV specification can be found at: > http://www.pcisig.com/members/downloads/specifications/iov/sr-iov1.0_11Sep07.pdf > (it requires membership.) > > Devices that support SR-IOV are available from following vendors: > http://download.intel.com/design/network/ProdBrf/320025.pdf > http://www.myri.com/vlsi/Lanai_Z8ES_Datasheet.pdf > http://www.neterion.com/products/pdfs/X3100ProductBrief.pdf > > The patches to enable the SR-IOV capability of Intel 82576 NIC are > available at (a.k.a Physical Function driver): > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8063/ > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8064/ > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8065/ > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8066/ > And the driver for Intel 82576 Virtual Function are available at: > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11029/ > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11028/ > > > Major changes from v10 to v11: > 1, use pci_setup_device() to setup Virtual Function (Matthew Wilcox) > 2, various coding style fixes (Matthew Wilcox) > 3, wording and grammar fixes (Randy Dunlap) > > v9 -> v10: > 1, minor fix in pci_restore_iov_state(). > 2, respin against the latest tree. > > v8 -> v9: > 1, put a might_sleep() into SR-IOV API which sleeps (Andi Kleen) > 2, block user config accesses before clearing VF Enable bit (Matthew Wilcox) > > > Yu Zhao (8): > PCI: initialize and release SR-IOV capability > PCI: restore saved SR-IOV state > PCI: reserve bus range for SR-IOV device > PCI: centralize device setup code into pci_setup_device() > PCI: add SR-IOV API for Physical Function driver > PCI: handle SR-IOV Virtual Function Migration > PCI: document SR-IOV sysfs entries > PCI: manual for SR-IOV user and driver developer > > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 27 ++ > Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 1 + > Documentation/PCI/pci-iov-howto.txt | 99 +++++ > drivers/pci/Kconfig | 10 + > drivers/pci/Makefile | 2 + > drivers/pci/iov.c | 677 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/pci/pci.c | 8 + > drivers/pci/pci.h | 53 +++ > drivers/pci/probe.c | 86 +++-- > include/linux/pci.h | 32 ++ > include/linux/pci_regs.h | 33 ++ > 11 files changed, 989 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 Documentation/PCI/pci-iov-howto.txt > create mode 100644 drivers/pci/iov.c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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