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Re: [Xen-devel] NIC: Queue assignment to guest OS

To: Kallol Biswas <kallol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] NIC: Queue assignment to guest OS
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:45:32 -0400
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:50:35AM -0700, Kallol Biswas wrote:
> Unfortunately other frameworks are not open source, and we can not use the 
> design and expose to all.

Please don't top post.
> 
> On Apr 19, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 06:17:17PM -0700, Kallol Biswas wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >>    I have a requirement to assign the transmit and receive queues of a NIC
> >> card to different guest operating systems so that the guests can directly
> >> submit transmit requests to controller and receive packets from NIC
> >> controller without going through a middle layer.  The NIC controller is not
> >> SRIOV capable and there are a few MSI-X vectors available.
> > 
> > OK. So you want to "export" the rx and tx queue (where each queue is 
> > associated
> > with an MSI-X) in the guest.
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> What would be the best way to implement the requirement in Xen? I am new to
> >> Xen but have experience in a similar virtualization framework.
> > 
> > How did you do this in other virtualization frameworks?

I am still at loss here how you guys managed this without ripping the network
driver of a NIC card and passed the MSI-X to a guest and the full PCI device
to _all_ of them and managed to negotiate some form of locking.

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