From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>
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Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] Add VFIO mediated device support and IMS support for the idxd driver.
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 10:29:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <196b23b9-12f7-2fc2-5efb-22e0642c456a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200509122113.GP19158@mellanox.com>
On 2020/5/9 下午8:21, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 05:09:09PM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote:
>> Hi Jason
>>
>> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 08:16:10PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 01:47:10PM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote:
>>>
>>>> Even when uaccel was under development, one of the options
>>>> was to use VFIO as the transport, goal was the same i.e to keep
>>>> the user space have one interface.
>>> I feel a bit out of the loop here, uaccel isn't in today's kernel is
>>> it? I've heard about it for a while, it sounds very similar to RDMA,
>>> so I hope they took some of my advice...
>> I think since 5.7 maybe? drivers/misc/uacce. I don't think this is like
>> RDMA, its just a plain accelerator. There is no connection management,
>> memory registration or other things.. IB was my first job at Intel,
>> but saying that i would be giving my age away:)
> rdma was the first thing to do kernel bypass, all this stuff is like
> rdma at some level.. I see this looks like the 'warp driver' stuff
> redone
>
> Wow, lots wrong here. Oh well.
>
>>> putting emulation code back into them, except in a more dangerous
>>> kernel location. This does not seem like a net win to me.
>> Its not a whole lot of emulation right? mdev are soft partitioned. There is
>> just a single PF, but we can create a separate partition for the guest using
>> PASID along with the normal BDF (RID). And exposing a consistent PCI like
>> interface to user space you get everything else for free.
>>
>> Yes, its not SRIOV, but giving that interface to user space via VFIO, we get
>> all of that functionality without having to reinvent a different way to do it.
>>
>> vDPA went the other way, IRC, they went and put a HW implementation of what
>> virtio is in hardware. So they sort of fit the model. Here the instance
>> looks and feels like real hardware for the setup and control aspect.
> VDPA and this are very similar, of course it depends on the exact HW
> implementation.
>
> Jason
Actually this is not a must. Technically we can do ring/descriptor
translation in the vDPA driver as what zerocopy AF_XDP did.
Thanks
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-13 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-21 23:33 [PATCH RFC 00/15] Add VFIO mediated device support and IMS support for the idxd driver Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:33 ` [PATCH RFC 01/15] drivers/base: Introduce platform_msi_ops Dave Jiang
2020-04-26 7:01 ` Greg KH
2020-04-27 21:38 ` Dave Jiang
2020-04-28 7:34 ` Greg KH
2020-04-21 23:33 ` [PATCH RFC 02/15] drivers/base: Introduce a new platform-msi list Dave Jiang
2020-04-25 21:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-04 0:08 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 03/15] drivers/base: Allocate/free platform-msi interrupts by group Dave Jiang
2020-04-25 21:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-04 0:08 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 04/15] drivers/base: Add support for a new IMS irq domain Dave Jiang
2020-04-23 20:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-01 22:30 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-03 22:40 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-04 0:25 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-04 12:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-06 10:27 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-25 21:38 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-04 0:11 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 05/15] ims-msi: Add mask/unmask routines Dave Jiang
2020-04-25 21:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-04 0:16 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 06/15] ims-msi: Enable IMS interrupts Dave Jiang
2020-04-25 22:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-04 0:17 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 07/15] Documentation: Interrupt Message store Dave Jiang
2020-04-23 20:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-01 22:32 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-03 22:41 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 08/15] vfio/mdev: Add a member for iommu domain in mdev_device Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 09/15] vfio/type1: Save domain when attach domain to mdev Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 10/15] dmaengine: idxd: add config support for readonly devices Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:34 ` [PATCH RFC 11/15] dmaengine: idxd: add IMS support in base driver Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:35 ` [PATCH RFC 12/15] dmaengine: idxd: add device support functions in prep for mdev Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:35 ` [PATCH RFC 13/15] dmaengine: idxd: add support for VFIO mediated device Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:35 ` [PATCH RFC 14/15] dmaengine: idxd: add error notification from host driver to " Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:35 ` [PATCH RFC 15/15] dmaengine: idxd: add ABI documentation for mediated device support Dave Jiang
2020-04-21 23:54 ` [PATCH RFC 00/15] Add VFIO mediated device support and IMS support for the idxd driver Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-22 0:53 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-22 11:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-22 21:14 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-04-23 19:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-24 3:27 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-24 12:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-24 16:25 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-24 18:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-26 5:18 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-26 19:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 3:43 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-27 11:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 13:19 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-27 13:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 14:18 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-27 14:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 15:41 ` Alex Williamson
2020-04-27 16:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 16:25 ` Dave Jiang
2020-04-27 21:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-29 9:42 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-05-08 20:47 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-05-08 23:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-08 23:52 ` Dave Jiang
2020-05-09 0:09 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-05-09 12:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-13 2:29 ` Jason Wang [this message]
2020-05-13 8:30 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-05-13 12:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-27 12:13 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-04-27 12:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-04-22 21:24 ` Dan Williams
2020-04-23 19:17 ` Dan Williams
2020-04-23 19:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-01 22:31 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-03 22:32 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-23 19:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-01 22:31 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-03 22:31 ` Dey, Megha
2020-05-03 22:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-04 0:20 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-22 23:04 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-23 19:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-01 22:32 ` Dey, Megha
2020-04-24 6:31 ` Jason Wang
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