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

[Joshua Lee]

Your personal experience didn't make my CPU cost $2,000. Although Intel
does a regrettable amount of market separation - it isn't quite that bad.


On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Taiidan at gmx.com <Taiidan at gmx.com> wrote:

> On 04/02/2017 01:43 AM, Joshua Lee 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...
>>
> Personal experience - I have never seen a reasonably priced intel system
> that did it properly, whereas even AMD's "desktop" CPU's and chipsets have
> it.
>
> I don't buy or recommend intel's stuff for exotic uses because I have been
> burned too many times by their artificial market separation efforts, I also
> do not like the fact that their newer products aren't owner controlled for
> a variety of reasons (although now you can say the same about AMD as well)
> which again isn't good for fringe uses as there is no ability to fix things
> that the board vendor refuses to.
>
> There isn't anything wrong with buying a used processor, and $150 gets you
> a 6386SE with 16 cores.
>
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