We're working with 'a very large broadcasting company' how are using cavium
cards for ssl offload in all of their hosts
We need to add:
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
<source>
<address domain='0x0000' bus='0x24' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/>
</source>
</hostdev>
Into the xml definition of the guest VMs
I'm very interested in working you guys to make this an integrated part of
CloudStack
Interestingly cavium card drivers can present a number of virtual interfaces
specifically designed to be passed through to guest vms, but these must be
addressed separately so a single 'stock' xml definition wouldn't be flexible
enough to fully utilise the card.
Regards,
Paul Angus
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kelven Yang [mailto:kelven.y...@citrix.com]
Sent: 11 June 2013 18:10
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Ryousei Takano
Subject: Re: PCI-Passthrough with CloudStack
On 6/11/13 12:52 AM, "Pawit Pornkitprasan" <p.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am implementing PCI-Passthrough to use with CloudStack for use with
>high-performance networking (10 Gigabit Ethernet/Infiniband).
>
>The current design is to attach a PCI ID (from lspci) to a compute
>offering. (Not a network offering since from CloudStack¹s point of
>view, the pass through device has nothing to do with network and may as
>well be used for other things.) A host tag can be used to limit
>deployment to machines with the required PCI device.
>
>Then, when starting the virtual machine, the PCI ID is passed into
>VirtualMachineTO to the agent (currently using KVM) and the agent
>creates a corresponding <hostdev> (
>http://libvirt.org/guide/html/Application_Development_Guide-Device_Conf
>ig-
>PCI_Pass.html)
>tag and then libvirt will handle the rest.
VirtualMachineTO.params is designed to carry generic VM specific
configurations, these configuration parameters can either be statically linked
with the VM or dynamically populated based on other factors like this one. Are
you passing PCI ID using VirtualMachineTO.params?
>
>For allocation, the current idea is to use CloudStack¹s capacity system
>(at the same place where allocation of CPU and RAM is determined) to
>limit 1 PCI-Passthrough VM per physical host.
>
>The current design has many limitations such as:
>
> - One physical host can only have 1 VM with PCI-Passthrough, even if
> many PCI-cards with equivalent functions are available
> - The PCI ID is fixed inside the compute offering, so all machines have
> to be homogeneous and have the same PCI ID for the device.
Anything that affects VM placement could have impact to HA/migration, we
probably need some graceful error-handling in these code paths, hopefully these
have been taken care of.
>
>The initial implementation is working. Any suggestions and comments are
>welcomed.
>
>Thank you,
>Pawit
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