From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/16 v6] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:43:51 -0800 Message-ID: <20081106154351.GA30459@kroah.com> References: <20081106044828.GA30417@kroah.com> <909674.99469.qm@web45112.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Yu Zhao , randy.dunlap@oracle.com, grundler@parisc-linux.org, achiang@hp.com, matthew@wil.cx, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, rdreier@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu To: H L Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:55574 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751392AbYKFPr2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:47:28 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <909674.99469.qm@web45112.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:40:12AM -0800, H L wrote: > > Greetings (from a new lurker to the list), Welcome! > To your question Greg, "yes" and "sort of" ;-). I have started taking > a look at these patches with a strong interest in understanding how > they work. I've built a kernel with them and tried out a few things > with real SR-IOV hardware. Did you have to modify individual drivers to take advantage of this code? It looks like the core code will run on this type of hardware, but there seems to be no real advantage until a driver is modified to use it, right? Or am I missing some great advantage to having this code without modified drivers? thanks, greg k-h