Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Cyborg] Updates to os-acc proposal

2018-08-01 Thread Eric Fried
Sundar- > On an unrelated note, thanks for the > pointer to the GPU spec > (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/579359/10/doc/source/specs/rocky/device-passthrough.rst). > I will review that. Thanks. Please note that this is for nova-powervm, PowerVM's *out-of-tree* compute driver. We hope to bring

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Cyborg] Updates to os-acc proposal

2018-08-01 Thread Nadathur, Sundar
Hi Eric,     Please see my responses inline. On an unrelated note, thanks for the pointer to the GPU spec (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/579359/10/doc/source/specs/rocky/device-passthrough.rst). I will review that. On 7/31/2018 10:42 AM, Eric Fried wrote: Sundar- * Cyborg drivers

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Cyborg] Updates to os-acc proposal

2018-07-31 Thread Eric Fried
Sundar- > * Cyborg drivers deal with device-specific aspects, including > discovery/enumeration of devices and handling the Device Half of the > attach (preparing devices/accelerators for attach to an instance, > post-attach cleanup (if any) after successful attach, releasing >

[openstack-dev] [Nova] [Cyborg] Updates to os-acc proposal

2018-07-30 Thread Nadathur, Sundar
Hi Eric and all,     With recent discussions [1], we have convergence on how Power and other architectures can use Cyborg. Before I update the spec [2], I am setting down some key aspects of the updates, so that we are all aligned. The accelerator - instance attachment has two parts: * The