Re: [libvirt] support for configuring all ports of a multiport SRIOV VF when assigning to guest

2017-08-08 Thread Moshe Levi
Hi Laine, Our Driver Architect is on PTO, I am waiting for his return to provide answer to your questions -Original Message- From: sendmail [mailto:justsendmailnothinge...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Laine Stump Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2017 8:14 PM To: Libvirt

Re: [libvirt] support for configuring all ports of a multiport SRIOV VF when assigning to guest

2017-08-05 Thread Laine Stump
On 08/05/2017 01:14 PM, Laine Stump wrote: > On 08/03/2017 02:33 AM, Moshe Levi wrote: >> Hi Laine, >> >> I have a few question before I can give my opinion. >> I the Mellanox Card Dual Port that support one PCI with 2 PF is ConnectX-3 >> and ConnectX-3 Pro. (maybe others cards I will check

Re: [libvirt] support for configuring all ports of a multiport SRIOV VF when assigning to guest

2017-08-05 Thread Laine Stump
On 08/03/2017 02:33 AM, Moshe Levi wrote: > Hi Laine, > > I have a few question before I can give my opinion. > I the Mellanox Card Dual Port that support one PCI with 2 PF is ConnectX-3 > and ConnectX-3 Pro. (maybe others cards I will check this) > The ConnectX-4 Dual Port and above is

Re: [libvirt] support for configuring all ports of a multiport SRIOV VF when assigning to guest

2017-08-03 Thread Moshe Levi
Another think I forgot is that driver should be configured with probe_vf [1] to work in a single port vf for ConnectX-3/PRO. For example if my driver configuration is as follows: options mlx4_core port_type_array=2,2 num_vfs=4,4,0 probe_vf=4,4,0 I will have 4 VF on port 1 and 4 VF on port 2, but

Re: [libvirt] support for configuring all ports of a multiport SRIOV VF when assigning to guest

2017-08-03 Thread Moshe Levi
Hi Laine, I have a few question before I can give my opinion. I the Mellanox Card Dual Port that support one PCI with 2 PF is ConnectX-3 and ConnectX-3 Pro. (maybe others cards I will check this) The ConnectX-4 Dual Port and above is implemented with 2 PCI devices per 2 PF. I can check with