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AssigneeLSI Corporation
InventorsMoby J. Abraham, Parag R. Maharana
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In one embodiment, a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Input/Output (I/O) device operable to perform Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is provided. The device comprises hardware registers implementing a PCIe configuration space for the device, and firmware implementing one or more SR-IOV virtual functions that each provide a virtual machine access to a subset of PCIe configuration space hardware registers for the device. The device further includes a hardware recovery register directly accessible by each of the virtual machines, and a control unit. The control unit is operable to detect a firmware fault at the I/O device and to update the hardware recovery register with information describing the firmware fault.
A Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Input/Output (I/O) device operable to perform Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), the device comprising:
A method for operating a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Input/Output (I/O) device to perform Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV), the method comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying programmed instructions which, when executed by a processor, are operable for performing a method of operating a virtual machine in a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) physical computing system that implements Single Root Input/Output (I/O) Virtualization (SR-10V), the method comprising:
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