[openstack-dev] [nova][neutron] PCI pass-through SRIOV

Chris Friesen chris.friesen at windriver.com
Wed Jan 29 01:01:04 UTC 2014


On 01/28/2014 10:55 AM, Jani, Nrupal wrote:

> While technically it is possible, we as a team can decide
> about the final recommendationJGiven that VFs are going to be used for
> the high-performance VMs, mixing VMs with virtio & VFs may not be a good
> option.  Initially we can use PF interface for the management traffic
> and/or VF configuration!!

I would expect that it would be fairly common to want to dedicate a VF 
link for high-speed data plane and use a virtio link for control plane 
traffic, health checks, etc.

Chris




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