Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic][nova] Suggestion required on pci_device inventory addition to ironic and its subsequent changes in nova

On Apr 10, 2017 1:02 PM, "John Garbutt" wrote: On 10 April 2017 at 11:31, . With ironic I thought everything is "passed through" by default, because there is no virtualization in the way. (I am possibly incorrectly assuming no BIOS tricks to turn off or re-assign PCI

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic][nova] Suggestion required on pci_device inventory addition to ironic and its subsequent changes in nova

Hi Jay, Dmitry, >I strongly challenge the assertion made here that inspection is only useful in scheduling contexts. Ok i agree that scheduling is not the only purpose of inspection but it is one of the main aspect of inspection. >There are users who simply want to know about their hardware, and

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic][nova] Suggestion required on pci_device inventory addition to ironic and its subsequent changes in nova

On 04/11/2017 05:28 PM, Jay Faulkner wrote: On Apr 11, 2017, at 12:54 AM, Nisha Agarwal wrote: Hi John, With ironic I thought everything is "passed through" by default, because there is no virtualization in the way. (I am possibly incorrectly assuming no BIOS

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic][nova] Suggestion required on pci_device inventory addition to ironic and its subsequent changes in nova

> On Apr 11, 2017, at 12:54 AM, Nisha Agarwal > wrote: > > Hi John, > > >With ironic I thought everything is "passed through" by default, > >because there is no virtualization in the way. (I am possibly > >incorrectly assuming no BIOS tricks to turn off or

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic][nova] Suggestion required on pci_device inventory addition to ironic and its subsequent changes in nova

Hi John, >With ironic I thought everything is "passed through" by default, >because there is no virtualization in the way. (I am possibly >incorrectly assuming no BIOS tricks to turn off or re-assign PCI >devices dynamically.) Yes with ironic everything is passed through by default. >So I am

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic][nova] Suggestion required on pci_device inventory addition to ironic and its subsequent changes in nova

On 10 April 2017 at 11:31, wrote: > On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 11:50 +0530, Nisha Agarwal wrote: >> Hi team, >> >> Please could you pour in your suggestions on the mail? >> >> I raised a blueprint in Nova for this https://blueprints.launchpad.ne >>

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic][nova] Suggestion required on pci_device inventory addition to ironic and its subsequent changes in nova

On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 11:50 +0530, Nisha Agarwal wrote: > Hi team, > > Please could you pour in your suggestions on the mail? > > I raised a blueprint in Nova for this https://blueprints.launchpad.ne > t/nova/+spec/pci-passthorugh-for-ironic and two RFEs at ironic side h >

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic][nova] Suggestion required on pci_device inventory addition to ironic and its subsequent changes in nova

Hi team, Please could you pour in your suggestions on the mail? I raised a blueprint in Nova for this https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthorugh-for-ironic and two RFEs at ironic side https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1680780 and

[openstack-dev] [ironic][nova] Suggestion required on pci_device inventory addition to ironic and its subsequent changes in nova

Hi, I suggested to add few pci devices related attributes to ironic inspection(out-of-band as well inband). https://review.openstack.org/#/c/338138. I got the suggestion to convert them to standard pci device format which nova understands. For example( as given in Nova code): [{"count": 5,