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Re: Various problems for the Xen for XenGT code and guide.



On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 5:48 AM Lv, Zhiyuan <zhiyuan.lv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It is mainly due to the business priority change. XenGT project was 
> originally created for data center usages with XEON E3 servers which have 
> integrated processor graphics. After SkyLake E3, there are no new servers 
> capable of running GVT-g, and Intel future graphics for data center will have 
> different approaches for GPU sharing. Another reason is the XenGT upstream 
> difficulty. Different from KVMGT which has been fully merged to upstream, Xen 
> part of GVT-g still has technical opens that are hard to close quickly.

This is extremely useful -- thanks for sharing. Any chance you can
elaborate on the later part "and Intel future graphics for data center
will have different approaches for GPU sharing"?

IOW, is there anything that Intel is cooking up that may help Xen in
that department?

Thanks,
Roman.



 


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