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Some SR-IOV PF devices provide no functionality other than acting as a means of enabling VFs. For these devices, we want to enable the VFs and assign them to guest virtual machines, but there's no need to have a driver for the PF itself. Add a new pci-pf-stub driver to claim those PF devices and provide the generic VF enable functionality. An administrator can use the sysfs "sriov_numvfs" file to enable VFs, then assign them to guests. For now I only have one example ID provided by Amazon in terms of devices that require this functionality. The general idea is that in the future we will see other devices added as vendors come up with devices where the PF is more or less just a lightweight shim used to allocate VFs. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> [bhelgaas: changelog] Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.