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

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

2018-03-22 Thread Ciprian Barbu
.ba...@enea.com>; Alexandru Avadanii <alexandru.avada...@enea.com>; Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [libvirt] PCI passthrough/SR-IOV on Cavium cn889x On 03/21/2018 11:46 AM, Ciprian Barbu wrote: Hello, In the context of running Openstack on a cluster of Cavium Th

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

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

[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