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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:59:35 +0800
From: "Zhao, Yu" <yu.zhao@...el.com>
To: "Alex Chiang" <achiang@...com>
Cc: "Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
<linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>,
"Grant Grundler" <grundler@...isc-linux.org>,
"Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@....cx>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
<kvm@...r.kernel.org>, <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
<xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 3/4 v2] PCI: support SR-IOV capability
On Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:41 AM, Alex Chiang wrote:
>* Zhao, Yu <yu.zhao@...el.com>:
>> Support SR-IOV capability. By default, this feature is not enabled and the
>SR-IOV device behaves as traditional PCI device. After it's enabled, each
>Virtual Function's PCI configuration space can be accessed using its own Bus,
>Device and Function Number (Routing ID). Each Virtual Function also has PCI
>Memory Space, which is used to map its own register set.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@...el.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@...el.com>
>>
>> ---
>> drivers/pci/Kconfig | 10 +
>> drivers/pci/Makefile | 2 +
>> drivers/pci/iov.c | 555
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> drivers/pci/pci.c | 14 +-
>> drivers/pci/pci.h | 44 ++++
>> drivers/pci/probe.c | 5 +
>> include/linux/pci.h | 28 +++
>> include/linux/pci_regs.h | 20 ++
>> 8 files changed, 677 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 drivers/pci/iov.c
>>
>
>So, what happens if another hotplug driver is already loaded?
>
>I don't know the SR-IOV spec well enough to know if you are
>allowed to have SR-IOV + some other form of hotplug, like ACPI or
>native PCIe.
>
>Today, pci_hp_register will return -EBUSY.
>
>If SR-IOV really doesn't have anything to do with hotplug, then
>it may be a candidate for directly calling pci_create_slot(). In
>that case, 'param' should not be a property of a hotplug slot,
>but of a generic PCI slot.
That's correct, SR-IOV really doesn't have anything to do with hotplug. I was just reusing hotplug sysfs as the control interface. Will remove this in next work, and create SR-IOV own sysfs entries under /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../iov/...
Thanks.
>
>Thanks.
>
>/ac
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