From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <Oleksandr_Andrushchenko@epam.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
"Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: SR-IOV: do we need to virtualize in Xen or rely on Dom0?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 12:48:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0aa4bf61-e08f-6da0-1cda-48e61bf876af@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30955a5b-ee46-60d7-ae56-23dc7c91008c@epam.com>
On 10.06.2021 12:01, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> On 10.06.21 10:54, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> OTOH if we properly trap accesses to the SR-IOV capability (like it
>> was proposed in [1] from your references) we won't have to modify OSes
>> that want to run as hardware domains in order to handle SR-IOV devices.
>
> Out of curiosity, could you please name a few? I do understand that
>
> we do want to support unmodified OSes and this is indeed important.
>
> But, still what are the other OSes which do support Xen + PCI passthrough?
I think Roger saying "want" meant to cover ones which currently don't,
and which would have to undergo more extensive changes if they were to
be enabled.
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-10 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-04 6:37 SR-IOV: do we need to virtualize in Xen or rely on Dom0? Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2021-06-10 7:54 ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-06-10 10:01 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2021-06-10 10:48 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2021-06-10 11:45 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2021-06-10 12:02 ` Jan Beulich
2021-06-10 12:25 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2021-06-10 14:10 ` Roger Pau Monné
2021-06-10 15:33 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
2021-06-11 6:45 ` Jan Beulich
2021-06-11 6:53 ` Oleksandr Andrushchenko
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