Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-30 Thread Pieper, Jeffrey E
I think the biggest hurdle is that for igb, the pf and vf should be split. That was being considered at the same time as the ixgbe/ixgbevf split, but there was little interest at the time. Jeff On 5/30/18, 9:13 AM, "owner-freebsd-...@freebsd.org on behalf of Harry Schmalzbauer" wrote:

Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-30 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 30.05.2018 um 17:53 schrieb Kevin Bowling: Harry, I wasn’t aware of anyone desiring vf support for igb but I’ll take a look at it for you if you can test -current with patches when I’m ready. My motive is more to validate and refine the iflib functionality and this is a good exercise. Ch

Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-30 Thread Kevin Bowling
Harry, I wasn’t aware of anyone desiring vf support for igb but I’ll take a look at it for you if you can test -current with patches when I’m ready. My motive is more to validate and refine the iflib functionality and this is a good exercise. On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 8:20 AM Harry Schmalzbauer wr

Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-30 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 30.05.2018 um 16:45 schrieb Ryan Stone: On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 12:58 PM Sean Bruno wrote: Does anyone have a process for testing the VF drivers (ixgbe igb, etc) in FreeBSD without actually firing up linux to instantiate a VM or using EC2? We have native support for creating VFs for ixl and

Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-30 Thread Ryan Stone
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 12:58 PM Sean Bruno wrote: > > Does anyone have a process for testing the VF drivers (ixgbe igb, etc) > in FreeBSD without actually firing up linux to instantiate a VM or using > EC2? We have native support for creating VFs for ixl and ixgbe (and cxgbe). For igb you're out

Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-29 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 29.05.2018 um 20:19 schrieb Lewis Donzis: This may be a red herring, but we’d be happy to see VF support for VMware SR-IOV in those drivers. We did a little bit of experimenting with it, but it looked like the code was a long way from working in that environment. ixlv(4) is working fine h

Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-29 Thread Pieper, Jeffrey E
Here are the steps that we use. If you just want to use bare metal, I think you’ll need to use passthrough : false; in the .conf. · The only supported output from virtual machines is serial console (i.e. you don't get a nice GUI if you use a Linux guest) · You should start your VM

Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-29 Thread Lewis Donzis
This may be a red herring, but we’d be happy to see VF support for VMware SR-IOV in those drivers. We did a little bit of experimenting with it, but it looked like the code was a long way from working in that environment. > On May 29, 2018, at 1:15 PM, Kevin Bowling wrote: > > iovctl worked a

Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-29 Thread Sean Bruno
On 05/29/18 12:15, Kevin Bowling wrote: > iovctl worked at one point with ixgbe. I don’t recall if there is any > way to attach the vf directly if you do that but you can use ppt driver > to pass them into bhyve.  > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 9:58 AM Sean Bruno > wrote

Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-29 Thread Kevin Bowling
iovctl worked at one point with ixgbe. I don’t recall if there is any way to attach the vf directly if you do that but you can use ppt driver to pass them into bhyve. On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 9:58 AM Sean Bruno wrote: > Does anyone have a process for testing the VF drivers (ixgbe igb, etc) > in F

Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-29 Thread Sean Bruno
On 05/29/18 11:55, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote: > Am 29.05.2018 um 18:57 schrieb Sean Bruno: >> Does anyone have a process for testing the VF drivers (ixgbe igb, etc) >> in FreeBSD without actually firing up linux to instantiate a VM or using >> EC2? >> >> sean > > To some limited extent I have acc

Re: Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-29 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Am 29.05.2018 um 18:57 schrieb Sean Bruno: Does anyone have a process for testing the VF drivers (ixgbe igb, etc) in FreeBSD without actually firing up linux to instantiate a VM or using EC2? sean To some limited extent I have access to a productive host (ESXi 6) providing VFs (PF=x722@C624).

Testing VF/PF code

2018-05-29 Thread Sean Bruno
Does anyone have a process for testing the VF drivers (ixgbe igb, etc) in FreeBSD without actually firing up linux to instantiate a VM or using EC2? sean signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature