Re: Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

2013-12-05 Thread Jack Vogel
OK, very different kettle of fish from anything that's been tested :) Let me talk about it with some people tomorrow and see what we can do. Jack On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Colin Percival wrote: > On 12/05/13 00:18, Jack Vogel wrote: > > Unfortunately its a feature that was implemented,

Re: Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

2013-12-05 Thread Colin Percival
On 12/05/13 00:18, Jack Vogel wrote: > Unfortunately its a feature that was implemented, and worked, but it > has not had a lot of use I suspect, and it has been in a limited number > of setups. I know nothing about this Amazon provided hosting, is it > linux/kvm or xen? > > I can see if we can ge

Re: Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

2013-12-05 Thread Jack Vogel
Unfortunately its a feature that was implemented, and worked, but it has not had a lot of use I suspect, and it has been in a limited number of setups. I know nothing about this Amazon provided hosting, is it linux/kvm or xen? I can see if we can get something set up and check it here. Jack O

Re: Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

2013-12-04 Thread Colin Percival
Hi Jack, On 12/04/13 10:21, Jack Vogel wrote: > Yes, the ixv code was specifically written to work in a guest with SRIOV, > however > our internal testing did not use DHCP, what if you assign it an address, will > it > work then? Hard-coding an IP address doesn't work either. Or rather, I can

Re: Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

2013-12-04 Thread Jack Vogel
Yes, the ixv code was specifically written to work in a guest with SRIOV, however our internal testing did not use DHCP, what if you assign it an address, will it work then? Jack On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Colin Percival wrote: > Hi Xen people & jfv, > > Amazon's new "C3" instance type h

Is ixgbe usable with SR-IOV?

2013-12-01 Thread Colin Percival
Hi Xen people & jfv, Amazon's new "C3" instance type has support for SR-IOV using ixgbe hardware; our driver looks like it should support this, but when I turn it on it doesn't seem to work. Boot dmesg: http://pastebin.com/1Kkpfzbi The virtual hardware is recognized: > ix0: > mem 0xf300-0x