[libvirt] [PATCH v2 0/3] PPC64 support for NVIDIA V100 GPU with NVLink2 passthrough

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Mon Mar 4 13:03:48 UTC 2019


On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 10:23:11AM -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> This series includes Libvirt support for a new QEMU feature for
> the spapr (PPC64) machine, NVIDIA V100 + P9 passthrough. Refer to
> [1] for the version 3 of this feature (same version used as a reference
> for this series).
>
> v2 has a entirely different approach from the first patch [2] that
> simply grants IPC_LOCK to the QEMU process:
>
> - first patch is a cleanup to make it easier to
> insert additional logic in the code
>
> - patch 2 contains helper functions that browses the device tree
> at /proc/device-tree to detect if a given VFIO PCI device
> is using a NVLink2 bus
>
> - patch 3 includes the passthroughLimit calculation for PPC64
> guests that are using NVLink2 passthrough GPUs.
>
> [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/10831413/

Is there something more (like a doc) apart from the patches that I can use to
crosscheck your implementation?

Erik




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