Re: Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

2013-12-05 Thread Jack Vogel
Unfortunately its a feature that was implemented, and worked, but it has not had a lot of use I suspect, and it has been in a limited number of setups. I know nothing about this Amazon provided hosting, is it linux/kvm or xen? I can see if we can get something set up and check it here. Jack

Re: Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

2013-12-05 Thread Colin Percival
On 12/05/13 00:18, Jack Vogel wrote: Unfortunately its a feature that was implemented, and worked, but it has not had a lot of use I suspect, and it has been in a limited number of setups. I know nothing about this Amazon provided hosting, is it linux/kvm or xen? I can see if we can get

Re: Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

2013-12-05 Thread Jack Vogel
OK, very different kettle of fish from anything that's been tested :) Let me talk about it with some people tomorrow and see what we can do. Jack On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Colin Percival cperc...@freebsd.orgwrote: On 12/05/13 00:18, Jack Vogel wrote: Unfortunately its a feature that

Re: Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

2013-12-04 Thread Colin Percival
Hi Jack, On 12/04/13 10:21, Jack Vogel wrote: Yes, the ixv code was specifically written to work in a guest with SRIOV, however our internal testing did not use DHCP, what if you assign it an address, will it work then? Hard-coding an IP address doesn't work either. Or rather, I can

Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

2013-12-01 Thread Colin Percival
Hi Xen people jfv, Amazon's new C3 instance type has support for SR-IOV using ixgbe hardware; our driver looks like it should support this, but when I turn it on it doesn't seem to work. Boot dmesg: http://pastebin.com/1Kkpfzbi The virtual hardware is recognized: ix0: Intel(R) PRO/10GbE