[vfio-users] vfio, xeon e3s, acs, & gpus -- oh my!

[Joshua Lee]

That's the total price, counting the motherboard, btw.

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Joshua Lee <joshua613 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What do you mean by "iffy"? My $200 x99 board has seperate IOMMU groups
> per-device, and a i7 5820k/6800k or, if you want it cheaper, an E5-1620v3
> or 1620v4, can do ACS and sane IOMMU groups with it for under $600 also,
> without needing to get a used processor...
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Taiidan at gmx.com <Taiidan at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> Intel's stuff is really iffy about ACS unless you buy one of the
>> overpriced two thousand dollar processors, they use it for artificial
>> market segmentation so that they can say the desktop processors and the E3
>> etc doesn't "support" sr-iov etc.
>>
>> If you want to do this without spending lots of money I would go with a
>> coreboot compatible G34 Opteron setup, I have a KGPE-D16 and it has ACS +
>> IOMMU with interrupt remapping (and every device gets its own IOMMU group)
>> - I play games in VM on it.
>>
>> You can get the board for $400 and a used quality 16 core CPU for around
>> $100, there is also a port of the OpenBMC network kvm in progress - which
>> will make it the first blob free server board with feature equivalency to
>> the proprietary stuff.
>>
>> https://www.coreboot.org/Board:asus/kgpe-d16
>>
>>
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