Re: [libvirt PATCH] RFC: Add support for vDPA network devices

2020-08-27 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
I got some feedback from John Ferlan on a different forum about missing handling of migration and qemu capabilities. I'm adding this to my patch, but I'd appreciate any additional feedback, particularly on the xml format and the managed=yes/node-device questions below. On Mon, 2020-08-24 at

Re: [libvirt PATCH] RFC: Add support for vDPA network devices

2020-08-24 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 18:56 -0400, Laine Stump wrote: > On 8/18/20 2:37 PM, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > > vDPA network devices allow high-performance networking in a virtual > > machine by providing a wire-speed data path. These devices require > > a > > vendor-specific host driver but the data path

Re: [libvirt PATCH] RFC: Add support for vDPA network devices

2020-08-20 Thread Laine Stump
On 8/18/20 2:37 PM, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: vDPA network devices allow high-performance networking in a virtual machine by providing a wire-speed data path. These devices require a vendor-specific host driver but the data path follows the virtio specification. The support for vDPA devices was

[libvirt PATCH] RFC: Add support for vDPA network devices

2020-08-18 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
vDPA network devices allow high-performance networking in a virtual machine by providing a wire-speed data path. These devices require a vendor-specific host driver but the data path follows the virtio specification. The support for vDPA devices was recently added to qemu. This allows libvirt to