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

2008-12-17 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

2008-12-17 Thread Rose, Gregory V
As noted in the attached email to the netdev list, we (e1000_devel) will support the API. - Greg Rose -Original Message- From: kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Greg KH Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:06 PM To: Jike Song Cc: Jesse Barnes;

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] AF_VMCHANNEL address family for guest-host communication.

2008-12-17 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:25:32AM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:57:27AM +0200, Gleb Natapov (g...@redhat.com) wrote: Another approach is to implement that virtio backend with netlink based userspace interface (like using connector or genetlink). This does not

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 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 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 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

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 Fischer, Anna
From: linux-pci-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-pci- ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Jesse Barnes Sent: 16 December 2008 23:24 To: Yu Zhao Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org; Chiang, Alexander; Helgaas, Bjorn; grund...@parisc-linux.org; g...@kroah.com; mi...@elte.hu; matt...@wil.cx;

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 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 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