I'd expect it to be something service-offering based, e.g. if your offering specifies GPU, it auto-allocates from detected GPU elements, if it's 10G nic, it auto allocates from that. Admin would still have to tag the host as being capable, somehow, but it would alleviate the manual registration of every PCI ID for every VF in every agent.properties, for example. One could simply turn on SR-IOV NIC or GPU.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Edison Su <edison...@citrix.com> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Marcus [mailto:shadow...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 1:34 PM >> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> Cc: ????; malini.k.bhand...@intel.com; Dugger, Donald D; >> yunhong.ji...@intel.com; Meshkin, Omid; Manan Shah; Bob Ball; Hoban, >> Adrian >> Subject: Re: Exposing PCIe capabilities to the Cloud Scheduler >> >> I think it's interesting, the PCI discovery that was mentioned, it would >> alleviate the manual agent.properties config that the patch requires. I > > Curious, if libvirt auto discover a bunch of pci devices on the host, should > agent report all of them to user/admin? If not, based on what kind of > criteria to filter pci devices? > >> 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.bhandaru@intel.c >> >>> om>] >> >>> 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 >> >
