Hi John and all, Yunhong's email mentioned about the SR-IOV NIC support BP: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-sriov
I'd appreciate your consideration of the approval of both BPs so that we can have SR-IOV NIC support in Icehouse. Thanks, Robert On 2/4/14 1:36 AM, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.ji...@intel.com> wrote: >Hi, John and all, > I updated the blueprint >https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-extra-info-icehouse >according to your feedback, to add the backward compatibility/upgrade >issue/examples. > > I try to separate this BP with the SR-IOV NIC support as a standalone >enhancement, because this requirement is more a generic PCI pass through >feature, and will benefit other usage scenario as well. > > And the reasons that I want to finish this BP in I release are: > > a) it's a generic requirement, and push it into I release is helpful to >other scenario. > b) I don't see upgrade issue, and the only thing will be discarded in >future is the PCI alias if we all agree to use PCI flavor. But that >effort will be small and there is no conclusion to PCI flavor yet. > c) SR-IOV NIC support is complex, it will be really helpful if we can >keep ball rolling and push the all-agreed items forward. > > Considering the big patch list for I-3 release, I'm not optimistic to >merge this in I release, but as said, we should keep the ball rolling and >move forward. > >Thanks >--jyh > >_______________________________________________ >OpenStack-dev mailing list >OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
