I think it's interesting, the PCI discovery that was mentioned, it would alleviate the manual agent.properties config that the patch requires. I imagine it will be available in the Ubuntu 14.04 release as well, assuming they're targeting current versions.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Edison Su <edison...@citrix.com> wrote: > Hi Ryousei, > The patch sounds good to me, don’t know why it’s not got checked into > 4.2 or 4.3. Is it ok for you to rebase to master? After that, I’ll check it > into master. > > > From: 高野了成 [mailto:takano-ryou...@aist.go.jp] > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 4:08 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Cc: malini.k.bhand...@intel.com; Edison Su; Dugger, Donald D; > yunhong.ji...@intel.com; Meshkin, Omid; Manan Shah; Bob Ball; Hoban, Adrian > Subject: RE: Exposing PCIe capabilities to the Cloud Scheduler > > Dear Edison Su and Malini Bhandaru, > > I am the mentor of Pawit, who has submitted PCI passthrough patch last year. > We have been developing this feature for operating our private cloud based on > CloudStack 4.2.1. > Now our users can deploy and migrate a VM instance with an InfiniBand > interface. > > We hope to improve our patch and merge into CloudStack. > Your comments and suggestions are welcome. > > Best regards, > Ryousei > >> Welcome, my dear Intel friends:) >> Last year, community has contributed code regarding to add PCI passthrough >> into CloudStack, see the patch: https://reviews.apache.org/r/12098/, but >> unfortunately, this patch doesn't get checked in, due to lack of support >> from committer: http://markmail.org/message/ux2ojhxfqwdvz2uc. >> If you guys want to pick it up, either work from scratch, or based on the >> original patch, that will be great. >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Bhandaru, Malini K >>> [mailto:malini.k.bhand...@intel.com<mailto:malini.k.bhand...@intel.com>] >>> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:48 PM >>> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org<mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org> >>> Cc: Dugger, Donald D; Jiang, Yunhong; Meshkin, Omid; Manan Shah; Bob Ball; >>> Hoban, Adrian >>> Subject: Exposing PCIe capabilities to the Cloud Scheduler >>> >>> Hello CloudStack-ers! >>> >>> PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) devices exist for graphics >>> processing, storage, digital signal processing, accelerating >>> encryption/decryption, and more. Further, within a function class, devices >>> can exhibit different capability levels. Exposing such platform hardware >>> capabilities to the cloud scheduler allows Virtual Machines (VMs) to >>> explicitly >>> request them for improved performance and for the cloud vendor the >>> opportunity to offer services at different price points. facilitate >>> differentiated >>> revenur opportunities to the cloud vendor. >>> >>> CloudStack already exposes GPU >>> acceleration<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/GP >>> U+and+vGPU+support+for+CloudStack+Guest+Vms>. Along these lines >>> PCIe capabilities, including SR-IOV (Single Root IO virtualization) can be >>> exposed. >>> OpenStack has a set of blueprints for the same. The implementation spans >>> tracking the PCIe devices associated with a host, their use, VM association, >>> and requesting PCIe features. libvirt has been modified to accommodate >>> PCIe discovery. Intel and Mirantis contributed a lot of the code. >>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/epa-for-pcie-devices >>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-libvirt >>> >>> Should you have an interest in supporting such functionality and have >>> technical questions, please get in touch. >>> >>> Regards >>> Malini Bhandaru, Intel >
