Re: [libvirt] PCI passthrough/SR-IOV on Cavium cn889x

2018-03-22 Thread Ciprian Barbu
Hello, Thank you for getting back to me so soon. I switched to Thunderbird for better text clarity. See some comment inline: On 21.03.2018 19:54, Laine Stump wrote: On 03/21/2018 11:46 AM, Ciprian Barbu wrote: Hello, In the context of running Openstack on a cluster of Cavium ThunderX cn8890

Re: [libvirt] PCI passthrough/SR-IOV on Cavium cn889x

2018-03-22 Thread Ciprian Barbu
Thank you all for getting back so quickly. Some responses inline -Original Message- From: sendmail On Behalf Of Laine Stump Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 7:54 PM To: libvirt Cc: Ciprian Barbu ; Alexandru Avadanii ; Alex Williamson Subject: Re: [libvirt] PCI passthrough/SR-IOV on

Re: [libvirt] PCI passthrough/SR-IOV on Cavium cn889x

2018-03-21 Thread Laine Stump
On 03/21/2018 11:46 AM, Ciprian Barbu wrote: > Hello, > > In the context of running Openstack on a cluster of Cavium ThunderX cn8890 > aarch64 servers, we are trying to attach virtual functions to a VM. > > First some introduction. This Cavium SoC has a different approach to Virtual > Functions t

Re: [libvirt] PCI passthrough/SR-IOV on Cavium cn889x

2018-03-21 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:46:01 + Ciprian Barbu wrote: > Hello, > > In the context of running Openstack on a cluster of Cavium ThunderX cn8890 > aarch64 servers, we are trying to attach virtual functions to a VM. > > First some introduction. This Cavium SoC has a different approach to Virtual

[libvirt] PCI passthrough/SR-IOV on Cavium cn889x

2018-03-21 Thread Ciprian Barbu
Hello, In the context of running Openstack on a cluster of Cavium ThunderX cn8890 aarch64 servers, we are trying to attach virtual functions to a VM. First some introduction. This Cavium SoC has a different approach to Virtual Functions than on x86 NICs, in which VFs are always enabled and ther