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Re: [Qemu-devel] Question: SRIOV support over Win Hyper-V VM running in
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Question: SRIOV support over Win Hyper-V VM running in QEMU process on Linux host |
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Thu, 26 Jul 2018 20:11:44 +0300 |
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:42:52AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:14:45 +0300
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 06:51:13PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > On 07/26/2018 05:52 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 07:33:14AM +0000, Elijah Shakkour wrote:
> > > > > Hey,
> > > > >
> > > > > Our team is adding a NIC functional emulation to QEMU.
> > > > > One of the features we are adding to this NIC is SRIOV.
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is the error message I get when checking SRIOV support of our
> > > > > emulated NIC on Win2016 server (the hyper-v VM).
> > > > > "
> > > > > SR-IOV cannot be used on this system as the PCI Express hardware does
> > > > > not support Access Control Services (ACS) at any root port.
> > >
> > > QEMU's emulated PCI Express Root Ports do not support ACS yet, however I
> > > am
> > > not sure ACS is a prerequisite
> > > for SR-IOV.
>
> ACS is certainly not a prerequisite for SR-IOV.
>
> > Looks like windows blocks dev assignment in nested VMs without it.
> > Thinking about it, doesn't vfio do the same by default? I think vfio has
> > a flag to override this though.
>
> IOMMU grouping in Linux takes isolation via ACS and device specific
> mechanisms into account, limiting the granularity with which a
> userspace driver can claim ownership of devices,
In that you must assign all devices behind this port as a group?
> but it doesn't
> actually prevent enabling SR-IOV on the endpoint. It just makes it
> less useful if your intention is to use SR-IOV for device assignment.
> The only overrides for this are out-of-tree. Thanks,
>
> Alex
- [Qemu-devel] Question: SRIOV support over Win Hyper-V VM running in QEMU process on Linux host, Elijah Shakkour, 2018/07/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Question: SRIOV support over Win Hyper-V VM running in QEMU process on Linux host, Knut Omang, 2018/07/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Question: SRIOV support over Win Hyper-V VM running in QEMU process on Linux host, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2018/07/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Question: SRIOV support over Win Hyper-V VM running in QEMU process on Linux host, Knut Omang, 2018/07/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Question: SRIOV support over Win Hyper-V VM running in QEMU process on Linux host, Marcel Apfelbaum, 2018/07/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Question: SRIOV support over Win Hyper-V VM running in QEMU process on Linux host, Knut Omang, 2018/07/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Question: SRIOV support over Win Hyper-V VM running in QEMU process on Linux host, Knut Omang, 2018/07/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Question: SRIOV support over Win Hyper-V VM running in QEMU process on Linux host, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2018/07/26