Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC V1 00/11] Xen PCI Passthrough

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/04/2011 09:58 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/04/2011 04:51 PM, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This patch series introduce the PCI passthrough for Xen.
> >
> > First, we have HostPCIDevice that help to access one PCI device of the host.
> >
> > Then, there are several additions in the QEMU code. One is qemu_run_one_timer
> > to run a specific timer. It is used by PCI passthrough to run a timer about
> > power management. Another is pci_check_bar_overlap.
> >
> > There are also several change in pci_ids and pci_regs.
> >
> > Last part, but not least, the PCI passthrough device himself. Cut in 3 parts
> > (or file), there is one to take care of the initialisation of a passthrough
> > device. The second one handle everything about the config address space, there
> > are specifics functions for every config register. The third one is to handle
> > MSI.
> >
> > I'm still working on setting a PCI passthrough device through QMP from libxl
> > (xen tool stack). It is just a call to device_add, with the driver parametter
> > hostaddr="0000:00:1b.0".
> >
> > There is some minor things missing:
> > - copyright header
> > - PCI IO space multiplexer
> We also have pci passthrough in qemu-kvm (I think based on the same Neocleus
> code). Rather than having two pci assignment implementations, I think we should
> have just one, with the differences (programming the hypervisor) abstracted at
> that level.
I agree in principle but how close is qemu-kvm pci passthrough to a mergable 
state?  Would it make sense to merge the Xen code first and then abstract it?
Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
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