RE: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-18 Thread Rose, Gregory V
Jesse Barnes wrote: Hm, that's not the answer I was hoping for. :) (Was looking for, Yeah we just need this bits queued and we'll send an update for e1000 right away. :) I really don't want the SR-IOV stuff to sit out another merge cycle though... Arg. We will have drivers that support

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:15 am Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:23:53PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: I applied 1-9 to my linux-next branch; and at least patch #10 needs a respin, I still object to #2. We should have the flexibility to have 'struct resource's that

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Greg KH
A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:44:03AM -0800, Rose, Gregory V wrote: As noted in the attached email to the netdev list, we (e1000_devel) will support the API. Great, will you have patches for the existing e1000 drivers soon to use it? Or

RE: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Fischer, Anna
; randy.dun...@oracle.com; rdre...@cisco.com; ho...@verge.net.au; ying...@kernel.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org; virtualizat...@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support On Friday, November 21, 2008 10:36 am Yu Zhao wrote

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:42 am Fischer, Anna wrote: I have two minor comments on this topic. 1) Currently the PF driver is called before the kernel initializes VFs and their resources, and the current API does not allow the PF driver to detect that easily if the allocation of the VFs

RE: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Rose, Gregory V
-Original Message- From: Jesse Barnes [mailto:jbar...@virtuousgeek.org] On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:44 am Rose, Gregory V wrote: As noted in the attached email to the netdev list, we (e1000_devel) will support the API. Do you think you'll have those changes ready for 2.6.29?

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:44 am Rose, Gregory V wrote: As noted in the attached email to the netdev list, we (e1000_devel) will support the API. Do you think you'll have those changes ready for 2.6.29? Would merging core SR-IOV support now make that any more likely? Thanks, Jesse --

RE: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Rose, Gregory V
-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:37:54AM +0800, Jike Song wrote: Jesse Barnes wrote: Given a respin of 10-13 I think it's reasonable to merge this into 2.6.29, but I'd be much happier about it if we got some driver code

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Rose, Gregory V wrote: -Original Message- From: Jesse Barnes [mailto:jbar...@virtuousgeek.org] On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:44 am Rose, Gregory V wrote: As noted in the attached email to the netdev list, we (e1000_devel) will support the API. Do you think you'll have

RE: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Rose, Gregory V
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Which dom0 kernel are you using? Is it based on my pvops-based dom0 work? The kernel I'm currently using is an ad-hoc patchwork of changes to the 2.6.18 Xen Dom0 kernel that was available back in August. The folks from OTC in Intel (Zhao Yu and his team) would

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:05 am Rose, Gregory V wrote: -Original Message- From: Jesse Barnes [mailto:jbar...@virtuousgeek.org] On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:44 am Rose, Gregory V wrote: As noted in the attached email to the netdev list, we (e1000_devel) will support

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:23:53PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: I applied 1-9 to my linux-next branch; and at least patch #10 needs a respin, I still object to #2. We should have the flexibility to have 'struct resource's that are not in this array in the pci_dev. I would like to see the SR-IOV

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:51 am Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:42:54AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: I really don't want the SR-IOV stuff to sit out another merge cycle though... Arg. Why, is there some rush to get it in? As there is no in-kernel users of it, I don't see

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Zhao, Yu
Fischer, Anna wrote: I have two minor comments on this topic. 1) Currently the PF driver is called before the kernel initializes VFs and their resources, and the current API does not allow the PF driver to detect that easily if the allocation of the VFs and their resources has succeeded or not.

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Zhao, Yu
Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:23:53PM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: I applied 1-9 to my linux-next branch; and at least patch #10 needs a respin, I still object to #2. We should have the flexibility to have 'struct resource's that are not in this array in the pci_dev. I

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Zhao, Yu
Jesse Barnes wrote: On Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:51 am Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:42:54AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote: I really don't want the SR-IOV stuff to sit out another merge cycle though... Arg. Why, is there some rush to get it in? As there is no in-kernel users of

RE: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-17 Thread Fischer, Anna
...@verge.net.au; ying...@kernel.org; linux- ker...@vger.kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org; virtualizat...@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support Fischer, Anna wrote: I have two minor comments on this topic. 1) Currently the PF driver

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-16 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Friday, November 21, 2008 10:36 am 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

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-16 Thread Jike Song
Jesse Barnes wrote: Given a respin of 10-13 I think it's reasonable to merge this into 2.6.29, but I'd be much happier about it if we got some driver code along with it, so as not to have an unused interface sitting around for who knows how many releases. Is that reasonable? Do you know

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-16 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:37:54AM +0800, Jike Song wrote: Jesse Barnes wrote: Given a respin of 10-13 I think it's reasonable to merge this into 2.6.29, but I'd be much happier about it if we got some driver code along with it, so as not to have an unused interface sitting around

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-16 Thread Zhao, Yu
Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:37:54AM +0800, Jike Song wrote: Jesse Barnes wrote: Given a respin of 10-13 I think it's reasonable to merge this into 2.6.29, but I'd be much happier about it if we got some driver code along with it, so as not to have an unused interface sitting

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-12-16 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:07:23PM +0800, Zhao, Yu wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:37:54AM +0800, Jike Song wrote: Jesse Barnes wrote: Given a respin of 10-13 I think it's reasonable to merge this into 2.6.29, but I'd be much happier about it if we got some driver code

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-11-21 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 02:36:05AM +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

Re: [PATCH 0/13 v7] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support

2008-11-21 Thread Zhao, Yu
Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 02:36:05AM +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