[one-dev] KVM SR-IOV Add-on

[Javier Fontan]

Hi David,

It seems the repository is complete. Should I publicise it?

Cheers

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Javier Fontan <jfontan at opennebula.org> wrote:
> The repository is created with a template README and a LICENSE file:
>
> https://github.com/OpenNebula/addon-kvm-sr-iov
>
> Tell me if you find something wrong, need any help or want more
> commiters added to it.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Javier Fontan <jfontan at opennebula.org> wrote:
>> I'm about to create the repo. I'll let you know when it is ready.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:28 PM, David Macleod <dmacleod at csir.co.za> wrote:
>>> Hi Javier
>>>
>>> The name is fine. My Github user name is dmacleod.
>>> Regards,
>>> David
>>>
>>>>>> Javier Fontan <jfontan at opennebula.org> 2013/10/25 12:43 PM >>>
>>>
>>> Just two comments.
>>>
>>> The repositories are named "addon-name-of-the-addon". I think yours
>>> could be named "addon-kvm-sr-iov". Are you ok with it? Any other idea?
>>>
>>> I am not able to find your user in github by email. Can you give me
>>> the github user name?
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:32 PM, David Macleod <dmacleod at csir.co.za> wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> The KVM SR-IOV driver enables support for SR-IOV devices, including
>>>> Infiniband, in KVM virtual machines. The add-on has been developed for HPC
>>>> orientated Clouds and includes a number of VM  performance enhancements.
>>>>
>>>> The driver supports two modes for passing SR-IOV devices into VMs, generic
>>>> and mlnx_ofed2. The generic mode is cable of passing any SR-IOV device
>>>> into
>>>> VMs, not limited to network devices.
>>>>
>>>> The mlnx_ofed2 mode is tuned to pass IP information into VMs via GUIDs and
>>>> also supports IB network isolation though a modification to the ovswitch
>>>> VNM
>>>> driver and IB partitions.
>>>>
>>>> A HPC mode option can also be enabled to improve CPU and memory
>>>> performance
>>>> of the VM by passing though the exact CPU model and detecting and
>>>> respecting
>>>> NUMA nodes.
>>>>
>>>> For more information and limitations visit:
>>>> http://wiki.chpc.ac.za/acelab:opennebula_sr-iov_vmm_driver
>>>>
>>>> Requested repo name: KVM SR-IOV Driver
>>>> Github user: dmacleod at csir.co.za
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> David
>>>>
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OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Data Center Virtualization
www.OpenNebula.org | @OpenNebula | github.com/jfontan