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Message-ID: <20090317015547.GA22152@yzhao-otc.sh.intel.com>
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
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