* Prasad Joshi ([email protected]) wrote:
> > From: Chris Wright [[email protected]]
> > I would like to know the same thing
> > for the PCIe GPU card connected to my machine. If GPU card is also sitting
> > behind the bridge then the hardware may be useless for the project. :(
> 
> > The GPU is also in a PCIe port, here:
> 
> > 00:02.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD890 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI 
> > express gpp port B)
> >        Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=0
> 
> > 06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G86 [Quadro NVS 290]
> 
> As the secondary and subordinate are 06, it means GPU pass through won't work.

No, it just means there are nor more bridges behind 00:02.0.  The GPU is
a PCIe device in a PCIe port (which happens to look a lot like a
bridge).  So, while GPU assignment has some tricky issues, I don't think
you'll be stopped by the IOMMU.

> >> Please explain how to find out this information.
> 
> > Using lspci -t you can see the topology pretty easily.  Otherwise you
> > can sift through lspci output to find the topology.
> 
> Thanks a lot Chris for explaining everything.

You're welcome.  Good luck with your project.

thanks,
-chris
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