On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 1:17 PM Radoslaw Biernacki <radoslaw.bierna...@linaro.org> wrote: > > ThunderX is Cavium SoC. This platform contain SRIOV NIC. > Unlike other commonly known network devices it does not have VF functionality > duplicated in its PF. PF is purely management device (on HW level). > > This creates several problems with existing libvirt code as in many places > libvirt assumes that each VF netdev has PF netdev assigned. > > This patch series trying to address issues which can be easily fixed. > (mostly bug fixes found while working on full featured solution) > > First patch in series is most important as it allows to unblock the netdev > detection and use <hostdev> on this platform.i <interface type="hostdev" > still does not work as it requires bigger changes both on netdev driver > and in libvirt itself. > More details about those issues can be found at: > https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3778 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/charm-nova-compute/+bug/1771662 > > v2: > - error reporting taken out of virNetDevGetPhysicalFunction() and moved > to calling function virNetDevGetVirtualFunctionInfo() > - curly braces removed from single line > - net-> model check removed as STREQ_NULLABLE() follows
Thanks Radoslaw ! I know a v3 is in the works, but just an fyi that we ran this series through our OpenStack testing on a cluster of ThunderX nodes and found no issues. -dann -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
