From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 00/18] Add VFIO mediated device support and DEV-MSI support for the idxd driver
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 09:19:55 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200807121955.GS16789@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200805192258.5ee7a05b@x1.home>
On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 07:22:58PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> If you see this as an abuse of the framework, then let's identify those
> specific issues and come up with a better approach. As we've discussed
> before, things like basic PCI config space emulation are acceptable
> overhead and low risk (imo) and some degree of register emulation is
> well within the territory of an mdev driver.
What troubles me is that idxd already has a direct userspace interface
to its HW, and does userspace DMA. The purpose of this mdev is to
provide a second direct userspace interface that is a little different
and trivially plugs into the virtualization stack.
I don't think VFIO should be the only entry point to
virtualization. If we say the universe of devices doing user space DMA
must also implement a VFIO mdev to plug into virtualization then it
will be alot of mdevs.
I would prefer to see that the existing userspace interface have the
extra needed bits for virtualization (eg by having appropriate
internal kernel APIs to make this easy) and all the emulation to build
the synthetic PCI device be done in userspace.
Not only is it better for security, it keeps things to one device
driver per device..
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-07 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-21 16:02 [PATCH RFC v2 00/18] Add VFIO mediated device support and DEV-MSI support for the idxd driver Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:02 ` [PATCH RFC v2 01/18] platform-msi: Introduce platform_msi_ops Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:02 ` [PATCH RFC v2 02/18] irq/dev-msi: Add support for a new DEV_MSI irq domain Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-22 16:50 ` Dey, Megha
2020-07-22 18:52 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-07-22 19:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-23 8:51 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-07-24 0:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-24 0:36 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-05 19:18 ` Dey, Megha
2020-08-05 22:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-05 22:36 ` Dey, Megha
2020-08-05 22:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-06 0:13 ` Dey, Megha
2020-08-06 0:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-06 0:32 ` Dey, Megha
2020-08-06 0:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-06 17:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-06 17:58 ` Dey, Megha
2020-08-06 20:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-06 22:27 ` Dey, Megha
2020-08-07 8:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-07 12:06 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-07 12:38 ` gregkh
2020-08-07 13:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-07 16:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-07 17:54 ` Dey, Megha
2020-08-07 18:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-07 20:31 ` Dey, Megha
2020-08-08 19:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-10 21:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-11 9:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-11 18:46 ` Dey, Megha
2020-08-11 21:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-11 18:39 ` Dey, Megha
2020-08-11 22:39 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-07 15:22 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-05 18:55 ` Dey, Megha
2020-07-21 16:02 ` [PATCH RFC v2 03/18] irq/dev-msi: Create IR-DEV-MSI " Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-22 17:03 ` Dey, Megha
2020-07-22 17:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-22 20:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-05 19:02 ` Dey, Megha
2020-07-21 16:02 ` [PATCH RFC v2 04/18] irq/dev-msi: Introduce APIs to allocate/free dev-msi interrupts Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-22 17:05 ` Dey, Megha
2020-07-22 17:35 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-05 20:19 ` Dey, Megha
2020-07-21 16:02 ` [PATCH RFC v2 05/18] dmaengine: idxd: add support for readonly config devices Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:02 ` [PATCH RFC v2 06/18] dmaengine: idxd: add interrupt handle request support Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:03 ` [PATCH RFC v2 07/18] dmaengine: idxd: add DEV-MSI support in base driver Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:03 ` [PATCH RFC v2 08/18] dmaengine: idxd: add device support functions in prep for mdev Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:03 ` [PATCH RFC v2 09/18] dmaengine: idxd: add basic mdev registration and helper functions Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:03 ` [PATCH RFC v2 10/18] dmaengine: idxd: add emulation rw routines Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:03 ` [PATCH RFC v2 11/18] dmaengine: idxd: prep for virtual device commands Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:03 ` [PATCH RFC v2 12/18] dmaengine: idxd: virtual device commands emulation Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:03 ` [PATCH RFC v2 13/18] dmaengine: idxd: ims setup for the vdcm Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:03 ` [PATCH RFC v2 14/18] dmaengine: idxd: add mdev type as a new wq type Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:03 ` [PATCH RFC v2 15/18] dmaengine: idxd: add dedicated wq mdev type Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:04 ` [PATCH RFC v2 16/18] dmaengine: idxd: add new wq state for mdev Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:04 ` [PATCH RFC v2 17/18] dmaengine: idxd: add error notification from host driver to mediated device Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:04 ` [PATCH RFC v2 18/18] dmaengine: idxd: add ABI documentation for mediated device support Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 16:28 ` [PATCH RFC v2 00/18] Add VFIO mediated device support and DEV-MSI support for the idxd driver Greg KH
2020-07-21 17:17 ` Dave Jiang
2020-07-21 21:35 ` Dan Williams
2020-07-21 16:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-21 18:00 ` Dave Jiang
2020-07-22 17:31 ` Dey, Megha
2020-07-22 18:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-07-21 23:54 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-07-24 0:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-06 1:22 ` Alex Williamson
2020-08-07 12:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-08-10 7:32 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-08-11 17:00 ` Alex Williamson
2020-08-12 1:58 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-08-12 2:36 ` Alex Williamson
2020-08-12 3:35 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-08-12 3:28 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-12 4:05 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-08-13 4:33 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-13 5:26 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-08-13 6:01 ` Jason Wang
2020-08-14 13:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-17 2:24 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-08-14 13:35 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-17 2:12 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-08-18 0:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-18 1:09 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-08-18 11:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-18 16:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-18 16:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-18 17:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-18 17:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-08-19 7:29 ` Tian, Kevin
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