Re: [RFC 0/2] VFIO SRIOV support

2016-01-05 Thread Haggai Eran
On 24/12/2015 15:51, Alex Williamson wrote: > No. A privileged entity needs to grant a user ownership of a group and > sufficient locked memory limits to make it useful, but then use of the > group does not require root permission. So we're thinking how we can force the VFs in these cases to be i

Re: [RFC 0/2] VFIO SRIOV support

2015-12-24 Thread Alex Williamson
@vger.kernel.org > > Cc: bhelg...@google.com; Noa Osherovich ; > > Haggai > > Eran ; Or Gerlitz ; > > Liran > > Liss > > Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] VFIO SRIOV support > > > > On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 07:43 +, Ilya Lesokhin wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > >

RE: [RFC 0/2] VFIO SRIOV support

2015-12-23 Thread Ilya Lesokhin
erlitz ; Liran > Liss > Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] VFIO SRIOV support > > On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 07:43 +, Ilya Lesokhin wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > Regarding driver_override, as far as I know you can only use it on > > devices that were already discovered. Since the devices d

Re: [RFC 0/2] VFIO SRIOV support

2015-12-23 Thread Alex Williamson
On Wed, 2015-12-23 at 07:43 +, Ilya Lesokhin wrote: > Hi Alex, > Regarding driver_override, as far as I know you can only use it on > devices that were already discovered. Since the devices do not exist > before the call to pci_enable_sriov(...) > and are already probed after the call  it would

RE: [RFC 0/2] VFIO SRIOV support

2015-12-23 Thread Ilya Lesokhin
r.kernel.org; linux-...@vger.kernel.org Cc: bhelg...@google.com; Noa Osherovich ; Haggai Eran ; Or Gerlitz ; Liran Liss Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] VFIO SRIOV support On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 15:42 +0200, Ilya Lesokhin wrote: > Today the QEMU hypervisor allows assigning a physical device to a VM, > facil

Re: [RFC 0/2] VFIO SRIOV support

2015-12-22 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 15:42 +0200, Ilya Lesokhin wrote: > Today the QEMU hypervisor allows assigning a physical device to a VM, > facilitating driver development. However, it does not support > enabling > SR-IOV by the VM kernel driver. Our goal is to implement such > support, > allowing developers