Re: [E1000-devel] Fwd: PCI passthrough of 40G ethernet interface (Openstack/KVM)

[jacob j. <ops...@gm...>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Nelson, Shannon
<sha...@in...> wrote:
>> From: jacob jacob [mailto:ops...@gm...]
>>
>> After update to latest firmware and using version 1.2.37 of i40e
>> driver, things are looking better with PCI passthrough.
>> there are still issues running dpdk 1.8.0 from the VM using the pci
>> passthrough devices and looks like it puts the devices in a bad state.
>> i40e driver will not bind after this happens and a host reboot is
>> required to recover.
>> I'll post further updates as i make progress.
>> Thanks for all the help.
>>
>
> Be sure to unbind the driver from pci-stub when you're done with passthru mode.
>
> BTW, can we trim this back to only one conversation, either this one or the one on the netdev mailing list?

Sure. which mailing list do you recommend? I posted on both since it
wasn't clear whether this was a qemu/kvm or i40e driver issue.

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> sln