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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	rob.miller@broadcom.com, lingshan.zhu@intel.com,
	eperezma@redhat.com, lulu@redhat.com, shahafs@mellanox.com,
	hanand@xilinx.com, mhabets@solarflare.com, gdawar@xilinx.com,
	saugatm@xilinx.com, vmireyno@marvell.com,
	zhangweining@ruijie.com.cn, eli@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] vdpa: introduce virtio pci driver
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 09:29:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200608092530-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61117e6a-2568-d0f4-8713-d831af32814d@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 06:07:36PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> 
> On 2020/6/8 下午5:54, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 05:46:52PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > On 2020/6/8 下午5:45, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 05:43:58PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > > > > Looking at
> > > > > > > pci_match_one_device() it checks both subvendor and subdevice there.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > But IIUC there is no guarantee that driver with a specific subvendor
> > > > > > matches in presence of a generic one.
> > > > > > So either IFC or virtio pci can win, whichever binds first.
> > > > > I'm not sure I get there. But I try manually bind IFCVF to qemu's
> > > > > virtio-net-pci, and it fails.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > Right but the reverse can happen: virtio-net can bind to IFCVF first.
> > > 
> > > That's kind of expected. The PF is expected to be bound to virtio-pci to
> > > create VF via sysfs.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > Once VFs are created, don't we want IFCVF to bind rather than
> > virtio-pci?
> 
> 
> Yes, but for PF we need virtio-pci.
> 
> Thanks
> 

(Ab)using the driver_data field for this is an option.
What do you think?

-- 
MST


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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: shahafs@mellanox.com, lulu@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	saugatm@xilinx.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	mhabets@solarflare.com, vmireyno@marvell.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gdawar@xilinx.com,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, eperezma@redhat.com,
	hanand@xilinx.com, zhangweining@ruijie.com.cn, eli@mellanox.com,
	lingshan.zhu@intel.com, rob.miller@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] vdpa: introduce virtio pci driver
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 09:29:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200608092530-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61117e6a-2568-d0f4-8713-d831af32814d@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 06:07:36PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> 
> On 2020/6/8 下午5:54, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 05:46:52PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > On 2020/6/8 下午5:45, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 05:43:58PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > > > > Looking at
> > > > > > > pci_match_one_device() it checks both subvendor and subdevice there.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > But IIUC there is no guarantee that driver with a specific subvendor
> > > > > > matches in presence of a generic one.
> > > > > > So either IFC or virtio pci can win, whichever binds first.
> > > > > I'm not sure I get there. But I try manually bind IFCVF to qemu's
> > > > > virtio-net-pci, and it fails.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > Right but the reverse can happen: virtio-net can bind to IFCVF first.
> > > 
> > > That's kind of expected. The PF is expected to be bound to virtio-pci to
> > > create VF via sysfs.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > Once VFs are created, don't we want IFCVF to bind rather than
> > virtio-pci?
> 
> 
> Yes, but for PF we need virtio-pci.
> 
> Thanks
> 

(Ab)using the driver_data field for this is an option.
What do you think?

-- 
MST

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-08 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-29  8:02 [PATCH 0/6] vDPA: doorbell mapping Jason Wang
2020-05-29  8:02 ` Jason Wang
2020-05-29  8:02 ` [PATCH 1/6] vhost: allow device that does not depend on vhost worker Jason Wang
2020-05-29  8:02   ` Jason Wang
2020-06-02  5:01   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02  7:04     ` Jason Wang
2020-06-02  7:04       ` Jason Wang
2020-05-29  8:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] vhost: use mmgrab() instead of mmget() for non worker device Jason Wang
2020-05-29  8:03 ` [PATCH 3/6] vdpa: introduce get_vq_notification method Jason Wang
2020-05-29  8:03   ` Jason Wang
2020-05-29  8:03 ` [PATCH 4/6] vhost_vdpa: support doorbell mapping via mmap Jason Wang
2020-05-29  9:16   ` Mika Penttilä
2020-05-29  9:24     ` Jason Wang
2020-05-29 18:30   ` Rob Miller
2020-05-29 18:30     ` [virtio-dev] " Rob Miller
2020-06-02  2:04     ` Jason Wang
2020-06-02  2:04       ` Jason Wang
2020-06-02  2:04       ` Jason Wang
2020-06-01 19:22   ` kbuild test robot
2020-06-01 19:22     ` kbuild test robot
2020-06-01 19:22     ` kbuild test robot
2020-06-02  4:56     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02  4:56       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02  6:49       ` Jason Wang
2020-06-02  6:49         ` Jason Wang
2020-06-02 13:31         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02 13:31           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-03  4:18           ` Jason Wang
2020-06-03  4:18             ` Jason Wang
2020-06-03  6:34             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-03  6:34               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-03  6:37               ` Jason Wang
2020-06-03  6:37                 ` Jason Wang
2020-05-29  8:03 ` [PATCH 5/6] vdpa: introduce virtio pci driver Jason Wang
2020-05-29  8:03   ` Jason Wang
2020-06-02  5:08   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02  7:08     ` Jason Wang
2020-06-05  8:54       ` Jason Wang
2020-06-05  8:54         ` Jason Wang
2020-06-07 13:51         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-07 13:51           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-08  3:32           ` Jason Wang
2020-06-08  3:32             ` Jason Wang
2020-06-08  6:32             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-08  9:18               ` Jason Wang
2020-06-08  9:31                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-08  9:43                   ` Jason Wang
2020-06-08  9:45                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-08  9:45                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-08  9:46                       ` Jason Wang
2020-06-08  9:54                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-08 10:07                           ` Jason Wang
2020-06-08 13:29                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2020-06-08 13:29                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-09  5:55                               ` Jason Wang
2020-06-02  5:09   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02  7:12     ` Jason Wang
2020-06-04 18:50       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-05-29  8:03 ` [PATCH 6/6] vdpa: vp_vdpa: report doorbell location Jason Wang
2020-05-29  8:03   ` Jason Wang

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