linux-kernel - Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH] virtio

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Date:   Wed, 30 May 2018 13:29:40 +0100
From:   Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>
To:     Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@...el.com>
Cc:     mst@...hat.com, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, dan.daly@...el.com,
        mark.d.rustad@...el.com, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com,
        cunming.liang@...el.com, zhihong.wang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH] virtio_pci: support enabling VFs

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 04:55:21PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> There is a new feature bit allocated in virtio spec to
> support SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization):
> 
> https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/11
> 
> This patch enables the support for this feature bit in
> virtio driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@...el.com>
> ---
> This patch depends on below proposal:
> https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-dev/201805/msg00154.html
> 
> This patch depends on below patch:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci.git/commit/?h=pci/virtualization&id=8effc395c2097e258fcedfc02ed4a66d45fb4238
> 
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/virtio_config.h |  7 ++++++-
>  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Looks good and matches the virtio spec change, but I'm not familiar with
PCI SR-IOV details, so not a full Reviewed-by.

Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>

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