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On 08/21/2013 05:31 PM, Mikyung Kang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are considering the LXC host device passthrough for GPU.
> Is anybody already working on this LXC host device passthrough?
> 
> If it is not already done,
> we are interested in implementing this LXC host device passthrough.
> We want to get some opinions/comments about LXC host device passthrough.
> 
> We think LXC host device passthrough is similar to KVM pci-passthrough,
> and can share much code for KVM PCI Passthrough:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:pci-passthrough-enhancement,n,z
> 
> We think it can be done by adding some code for LXC passthrough 
> to the KVM pci-passthrough code by updating codes under nova/pci/ 
> and creates a few more files. Maybe DB, scheduler, and object support wise, 
> they can be adapted for LXC host device by adding one more table.
> 
> Any better idea?

Someone else has worked on this some.

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/heterogeneous-gpu-accelerator-support

IIRC, the code still needed a good bit of work, though.

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Russell Bryant