Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 3/4] pcie: Add some SR/IOV API documentation in docs/pcie_sriov.txt

[Knut Omang]

On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 13:54 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:56:39AM +0200, Knut Omang wrote:
> > But feel free to just skip this patch, the most important is to get
> > the
> > generic SR/IOV code in there for others to use.
> 
> That's my question. Is it for others to use or are you going to use 
> it youself?

Ideally both - I have had several people approach me for it, hopefully
that will lead to other emulated devices. I use it actively myself but
that code is not in a form that could go into Qemu yet.

> If you plan to e.g. complete igb to the point where Linux can use it,
> then I'll merge this.

I have a student assigned to work on it, so yes, that's definitely a
goal.

> BTW for igb it might be easier to copy out e1000 code, at least 
> that's what linux guest drivers did.

Yes, that was more of a exercise for myself of subclassing using QOM..

> Alternatively, if someone  on list is interested in using this,
> please review and ack.

Yes, please do :-)

Thanks,

Knut