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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>,
	Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	David M <david.m.ertman@intel.com>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
	"kwankhede@nvidia.com" <kwankhede@nvidia.com>,
	"leon@kernel.org" <leon@kernel.org>,
	"cohuck@redhat.com" <cohuck@redhat.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/19] Mellanox, mlx5 sub function support
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 17:05:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191108210545.GG10956@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191108133435.6dcc80bd@x1.home>

On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:34:35PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 16:12:53 -0400
> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 11:12:38AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 15:40:22 +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:  
> > > > > The new intel driver has been having a very similar discussion about how to
> > > > > model their 'multi function device' ie to bind RDMA and other drivers to a
> > > > > shared PCI function, and I think that discussion settled on adding a new bus?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Really these things are all very similar, it would be nice to have a clear
> > > > > methodology on how to use the device core if a single PCI device is split by
> > > > > software into multiple different functional units and attached to different
> > > > > driver instances.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Currently there is alot of hacking in this area.. And a consistent scheme
> > > > > might resolve the ugliness with the dma_ops wrappers.
> > > > > 
> > > > > We already have the 'mfd' stuff to support splitting platform devices, maybe
> > > > > we need to create a 'pci-mfd' to support splitting PCI devices?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm not really clear how mfd and mdev relate, I always thought mdev was
> > > > > strongly linked to vfio.
> > > > >  
> > > >
> > > > Mdev at beginning was strongly linked to vfio, but as I mentioned
> > > > above it is addressing more use case.
> > > > 
> > > > I observed that discussion, but was not sure of extending mdev further.
> > > > 
> > > > One way to do for Intel drivers to do is after series [9].
> > > > Where PCI driver says, MDEV_CLASS_ID_I40_FOO
> > > > RDMA driver mdev_register_driver(), matches on it and does the probe().  
> > > 
> > > Yup, FWIW to me the benefit of reusing mdevs for the Intel case vs
> > > muddying the purpose of mdevs is not a clear trade off.  
> > 
> > IMHO, mdev has amdev_parent_ops structure clearly intended to link it
> > to vfio, so using a mdev for something not related to vfio seems like
> > a poor choice.
> 
> Unless there's some opposition, I'm intended to queue this for v5.5:
> 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg199613.html
> 
> mdev has started out as tied to vfio, but at it's core, it's just a
> device life cycle infrastructure with callbacks between bus drivers
> and vendor devices.  If virtio is on the wrong path with the above
> series, please speak up.  Thanks,

Well, I think Greg just objected pretty strongly.

IMHO it is wrong to turn mdev into some API multiplexor. That is what
the driver core already does and AFAIK your bus type is supposed to
represent your API contract to your drivers.

Since the bus type is ABI, 'mdev' is really all about vfio I guess?

Maybe mdev should grow by factoring the special GUID life cycle stuff
into a helper library that can make it simpler to build proper API
specific bus's using that lifecycle model? ie the virtio I saw
proposed should probably be a mdev-virtio bus type providing this new
virtio API contract using a 'struct mdev_virtio'?

I only looked briefly but mdev seems like an unusual way to use the
driver core. *generally* I would expect that if a driver wants to
provide a foo_device (on a foo bus, providing the foo API contract) it
looks very broadly like:

  struct foo_device {
       struct device dev;
       const struct foo_ops *ops;
  };
  struct my_foo_device {
      struct foo_device fdev;
  };

  foo_device_register(&mydev->fdev);

Which means we can use normal container_of() patterns, while mdev
seems to want to allocate all the structs internally.. I guess this is
because of how the lifecycle stuff works? From a device core view it
looks quite unnatural.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-08 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 132+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-07 16:04 [PATCH net-next 00/19] Mellanox, mlx5 sub function support Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 01/19] net/mlx5: E-switch, Move devlink port close to eswitch port Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 02/19] net/mlx5: E-Switch, Add SF vport, vport-rep support Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 03/19] net/mlx5: Introduce SF table framework Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 04/19] net/mlx5: Introduce SF life cycle APIs to allocate/free Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 05/19] net/mlx5: E-Switch, Enable/disable SF's vport during SF life cycle Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 06/19] net/mlx5: Add support for mediated devices in switchdev mode Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 10:32     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 16:03       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 16:22         ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 16:29           ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 18:01             ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:04             ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:21               ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 07/19] vfio/mdev: Introduce sha1 based mdev alias Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 11:04     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:59       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 16:28         ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 11:10     ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 16:03       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 08/19] vfio/mdev: Make mdev alias unique among all mdevs Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 10:49     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:13       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 09/19] vfio/mdev: Expose mdev alias in sysfs tree Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 13:22     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:03       ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-08 18:16         ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 10/19] vfio/mdev: Introduce an API mdev_alias Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 11/19] vfio/mdev: Improvise mdev life cycle and parent removal scheme Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 13:01     ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 16:12       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 12/19] devlink: Introduce mdev port flavour Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 20:38     ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-07 21:03       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08  1:17         ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08  1:44           ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08  2:20             ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08  2:31               ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08  9:46                 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:45                   ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 16:31                     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 16:43                       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 18:11                         ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:23                           ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 18:34                             ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:56                               ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08  9:30               ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:41                 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 13/19] net/mlx5: Register SF devlink port Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 14/19] net/mlx5: Share irqs between SFs and parent PCI device Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 15/19] net/mlx5: Add load/unload routines for SF driver binding Parav Pandit
2019-11-08  9:48     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 11:13       ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 16/19] net/mlx5: Implement dma ops and params for mediated device Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 20:42     ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-07 21:30       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08  1:16         ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08  6:37     ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-08 15:29       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 17/19] net/mlx5: Add mdev driver to bind to mdev devices Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 18/19] Documentation: net: mlx5: Add mdev usage documentation Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08   ` [PATCH net-next 19/19] mtty: Optionally support mtty alias Parav Pandit
2019-11-08  6:26     ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-11-08 10:45     ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:08       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 15:15         ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 13:46     ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 15:10       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 15:28         ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 15:30           ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 17:54             ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-08  9:51   ` [PATCH net-next 01/19] net/mlx5: E-switch, Move devlink port close to eswitch port Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:50     ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 17:03 ` [PATCH net-next 00/19] Mellanox, mlx5 sub function support Leon Romanovsky
2019-11-07 20:10   ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08  6:20     ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-11-08 15:01       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 20:32 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-07 20:52   ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08  1:16     ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08  1:49       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08  2:12         ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 12:12   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 14:40     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-08 15:40       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 19:12         ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 20:12           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-08 20:20             ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 20:32               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-08 20:52                 ` gregkh
2019-11-08 20:34             ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-08 21:05               ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2019-11-08 21:19                 ` gregkh
2019-11-08 21:52                 ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-08 22:48                   ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-09  0:57                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-09 17:41                       ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-10 19:04                         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-10 19:48                       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11 14:17                         ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-11 14:58                           ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11 15:06                             ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-19  4:51                               ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-09  0:12                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-09  0:45                     ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11  2:19                 ` Jason Wang
2019-11-08 21:45             ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-09  0:44               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-09  8:46                 ` gregkh
2019-11-09 11:18                   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-09 17:28                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-10  9:16                     ` gregkh
2019-11-09 17:27                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-10  9:18                   ` gregkh
2019-11-11  3:46                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-11  5:18                       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11 13:30                       ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-11 14:14                         ` gregkh
2019-11-11 14:37                           ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-10 19:37                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-11  3:57                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 16:06     ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 19:06     ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 19:34       ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 19:48         ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 19:41       ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 20:40         ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 21:21         ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 21:39           ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 21:51             ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 22:21               ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-07 23:57 ` David Miller

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