NVMe and SR-IOV, how to use together?

[Bogdan Rudas]

I run kernel 4.4.27 which don't have a support for SR-IOV in NVMe
driver, that's why I do not see a VFs in lspci output.

Thank you.

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:
> SR-IOV itself only allows you to create new virtual functions,
> you can look at any number of Linux howtos on creating them using
> the sysfs interface.
>
> As far as NVMe is concerned there are multiple levels of interaction
> that could be possible, all optional.
>
> First NVMe since version 1.1 supports subsystems with multiple
> controlles, and you can use namespace management (if support by the
> device) to assign namespaces to one or more controllers.  On Linux
> you can use the nvme-cli tool for that.
>
> Since NVMe 1.3 there are virtualization extensions that also allow to
> assign resources like queue pairs to specific VMs.  There is no support
> in Linux or nvme-cli for that at the moment.



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