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

David Macleod dmacleod at csir.co.za
Wed Nov 6 21:53:49 PST 2013


Hi Javier

The repository is complete, you can publicise it.

Thanks,
David


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Javier Fontan <jfontan at opennebula.org>wrote:

> 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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> >
> >
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> Javier Fontán Muiños
> Developer
> OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Data Center Virtualization
> www.OpenNebula.org | @OpenNebula | github.com/jfontan
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