Re: [Xen-devel] Pass through in Xen

2017-07-27 Thread ajmalmalib4u
Hi, I have read that “From a software standpoint, PCI and PCI Express devices are essentially the same. PCIe devices had the same configuration space, BARs, and (usually) support the same PCI INTx interrupts”. According to my understanding, PCI and PCIe are different kind of interfaces with differe

Re: [Xen-devel] Pass through in Xen

2017-07-26 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 05:59:04PM +0530, ajmalmalib4u wrote: >Hi, >>> > I have successfully tested a PCI device in my PC. >>> > As per my current understanding, the control flow for PCI passthrough >is >>> > “xen-pcifront -> xen-pciback -> driver”. Is this correct? >>> T

Re: [Xen-devel] Pass through in Xen

2017-07-25 Thread ajmalmalib4u
Hi, >> > I have successfully tested a PCI device in my PC.  >> > As per my current understanding, the control flow for PCI passthrough is  >> > “xen-pcifront -> xen-pciback -> driver”. Is this correct?  >> That's for PV guests, and only for accesses to the PCI config space.  >> Device MMIO region

Re: [Xen-devel] Pass through in Xen

2017-07-20 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:06:18PM +0530, ajmalmalib4u wrote: > Hi, >>> > Can anyone please explain or point me to a thread where I can read >about >>> > the internals of PCI passthrough or How passthrough actually works? >>> >>> For PV: >>> >>> > http://elixir.f

Re: [Xen-devel] Pass through in Xen

2017-07-19 Thread ajmalmalib4u
 Hi, >> > Can anyone please explain or point me to a thread where I can read about  >> > the internals of PCI passthrough or How passthrough actually works?  >> >> For PV:  >> >> http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/xen/xen-pciback  >> http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/

Re: [Xen-devel] Pass through in Xen

2017-07-18 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 04:43:53PM +0530, ajmalmalib4u wrote: >Hi, > >I am trying to learn how Passthrough works in xen. As an initial step I >have tried to do PCI passthrough in my PC with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial >Xerus) as Dom0 and DomU. For that I had to rebuild the kernel