Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] SR-IOV and IOMMU check

2014-04-01 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 04:59:34AM +, Luohao (brian) wrote: Now, VFIO hasn't been made generally supported by most enterprise linux distributions, and as I know, the current pci passthrough /SR-IOV implementation is still based on a historical approach. Probably we can consider the

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] SR-IOV and IOMMU check

2014-04-01 Thread Luohao (brian)
/PCI_passthrough_SRIOV_support - Hao -Original Message- From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berra...@redhat.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 1:58 PM To: Luohao (brian) Cc: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions); Jinbo (Justin) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] SR-IOV and IOMMU

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] SR-IOV and IOMMU check

2014-03-31 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:14:49PM -0400, Steve Gordon wrote: - Original Message - This is the approach mentioned by linux-kvm.org http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM 3. reboot and verify that your system has IOMMU support AMD Machine

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] SR-IOV and IOMMU check

2014-03-31 Thread Luohao (brian)
- From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berra...@redhat.com] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 5:05 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Cc: Jinbo (Justin) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] SR-IOV and IOMMU check On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:14:49PM -0400, Steve Gordon wrote

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] SR-IOV and IOMMU check

2014-03-28 Thread Steve Gordon
- Original Message - Hi, all Currently openstack can support SR-IOV device pass-through (at least there are some patches for this), but the prerequisite to this is both IOMMU and SR-IOV must be enabled correctly, it seems there is not a robust way to check this in openstack, I have

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] SR-IOV and IOMMU check

2014-03-28 Thread Luohao (brian)
...@redhat.com] Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 3:37 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] SR-IOV and IOMMU check - Original Message - Hi, all Currently openstack can support SR-IOV device pass-through (at least

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] SR-IOV and IOMMU check

2014-03-28 Thread Steve Gordon
- Original Message - This is the approach mentioned by linux-kvm.org http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM 3. reboot and verify that your system has IOMMU support AMD Machine dmesg | grep AMD-Vi ... AMD-Vi: Enabling IOMMU at