[libvirt] [PATCH 0/5] Interface pools and passthrough mode

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Nov 29 19:55:14 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:46:13PM +0000, Shradha Shah wrote:
> 
> Shradha Shah (5):
>   Moving the declaration of _pciDevice and _pciDeviceList to pci.h
>   Added function pciSysfsFile to enable access to the PCI SYSFS files.
>   Adding functions virNetDevGetVirtualFunctions and virNetDevGetNetName
>         virNetDevGetVirtualFunctions: Gets the BDF of all the Virtual
>     Functions given a physical function     virNetDevGetNetName: Gets
>     the interface name of the PCI Device.
>   Addition of a new device structure to store the state of a Virtual
>     Function     Modifications to the Physical Device Structure to
>     store state of its Virtual Functions
>   If a system has 64 or more VF's, it is quite tedious to mention each
>     VF in the interface pool.     The following modification find a
>     Free VF given a Physical Function when mode=passthrough.     We
>     also save the state of each VF.     Hence modifications to
>     networkAllocateActualDevice, networkNotifyActualDevice and
>     networkReleaseActualDevice     were required.     The following
>     patch does just that.

BTW, to make 'git send-email' happy when generating Subject: lines
and these patch summaries, make sure the commit message consists of
a short single line summary, then a blank line, then the longer
multiple line description

Regards,
Daniel
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