From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from alln-iport-1.cisco.com (alln-iport-1.cisco.com [173.37.142.88]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7AB7683A for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2014 10:15:14 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cisco.com; i=@cisco.com; l=1004; q=dns/txt; s=iport; t=1410164414; x=1411374014; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:references: in-reply-to:content-id:content-transfer-encoding: mime-version; bh=l3lkh2TVpA7WaK4yBmU6cA1BITYXhJpb2EUq9MAmJmU=; b=QM4TUFJQKc9+FMDpT+TZDJ21/9Y7voDro0fiD+FDFoHLukfhEtSdZfwS Wfufm6Yytj+oWhm614UbFcTCqXsADiO3T1W7RKhArV65QIwo3YPWJ1YdR nn7ArJfxHmVhx3XPw/grXfMgJnKET6JalQm5MjP2k/RAGe5c/mPjH/ZjT w=; X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgcFAAVmDVStJA2M/2dsb2JhbABYgw2BKgTRPgGBDxZ4hAQBAQQ6PxACAQg2EDIlAQEEAQ0FiEK7GQEXjnVYB4RMAQSGGosmizKMI4kJg2FsgQZCgQcBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,485,1406592000"; d="scan'208";a="75797049" Received: from alln-core-7.cisco.com ([173.36.13.140]) by alln-iport-1.cisco.com with ESMTP; 08 Sep 2014 08:20:12 +0000 Received: from xhc-rcd-x08.cisco.com (xhc-rcd-x08.cisco.com [173.37.183.82]) by alln-core-7.cisco.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s888KCn0022224 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:20:12 GMT Received: from xmb-aln-x07.cisco.com ([169.254.2.136]) by xhc-rcd-x08.cisco.com ([173.37.183.82]) with mapi id 14.03.0195.001; Mon, 8 Sep 2014 03:20:12 -0500 From: "Sujith Sankar (ssujith)" To: "Burakov, Anatoly" , Stephen Hemminger Thread-Topic: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/16] [RFC] [VFIO] Add VFIO support to DPDK Thread-Index: Ac9lLTXFrHbg7bLiSjKn4c9MFTXI0gAVOByAACMklAAZYcOAgA== Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:20:11 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20140501091241.4786e99c@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.3.9.131030 x-originating-ip: [10.127.148.12] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/16] [RFC] [VFIO] Add VFIO support to DPDK X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 08:15:15 -0000 Hi Anatoly, Has anything happened in this front? Do you see running of DPDK in guest OS on KVM with physical NIC passed through to it happening soon? Thanks, -Sujith=20 On 02/05/14 2:28 pm, "Burakov, Anatoly" wrote: >Hi Stephen, > >> Will this work in guest? or only on bare metal? > >VFIO is Linux-only, and in theory will be able to work on the guest, but >not at the moment, since it requires IOMMU. There was a GSoC proposal for >KVM to do IOMMU implementation, and there were a few AMD IOMMU-emulation >patches floating around the KVM lists for some time, but nothing has made >it into release yet. > >Best regards, >Anatoly Burakov >DPDK SW Engineer > >-------------------------------------------------------------- >Intel Shannon Limited >Registered in Ireland >Registered Office: Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare >Registered Number: 308263 >Business address: Dromore House, East Park, Shannon, Co. Clare > > >