From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: "Alex Williamson (alex.williamson@redhat.com)"
<alex.williamson@redhat.com>, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
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"Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
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"vkoul@kernel.org" <vkoul@kernel.org>,
"Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
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"Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>,
"Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@intel.com>,
"Lu, Baolu" <baolu.lu@intel.com>,
"Kumar, Sanjay K" <sanjay.k.kumar@intel.com>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/20] Add VFIO mediated device support and DEV-MSI support for the idxd driver
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 08:23:47 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210603112347.GO1002214@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MWHPR11MB1886D613948986530E9B61CB8C3C9@MWHPR11MB1886.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 05:52:58AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2021 9:50 AM
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 01:11:37AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> >
> > > Jason, can you clarify your attitude on mdev guid stuff? Are you
> > > completely against it or case-by-case? If the former, this is a big
> > > decision thus it's better to have consensus with Alex/Kirti. If the
> > > latter, would like to hear your criteria for when it can be used
> > > and when not...
> >
> > I dislike it generally, but it exists so <shrug>. I know others feel
> > more strongly about it being un-kernely and the wrong way to use sysfs.
> >
> > Here I was remarking how the example in the cover letter made the mdev
> > part seem totally pointless. If it is pointless then don't do it.
>
> Is your point about that as long as a mdev requires pre-config
> through driver specific sysfs then it doesn't make sense to use
> mdev guid interface anymore?
Yes
> The value of mdev guid interface is providing a vendor-agnostic
> interface for mdev life-cycle management which allows one-
> enable-fit-all in upper management stack. Requiring vendor
> specific pre-config does blur the boundary here.
It isn't even vendor-agnostic - understanding the mdev_type
configuration stuff is still vendor specific.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-03 11:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-22 0:19 [PATCH v6 00/20] Add VFIO mediated device support and DEV-MSI support for the idxd driver Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:19 ` [PATCH v6 01/20] vfio/mdev: idxd: add theory of operation documentation for idxd mdev Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:19 ` [PATCH v6 02/20] dmaengine: idxd: add external module driver support for dsa_bus_type Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:19 ` [PATCH v6 03/20] dmaengine: idxd: add IMS offset and size retrieval code Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:19 ` [PATCH v6 04/20] dmaengine: idxd: add portal offset for IMS portals Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:19 ` [PATCH v6 05/20] vfio: mdev: common lib code for setting up Interrupt Message Store Dave Jiang
2021-05-24 0:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-28 1:49 ` Dave Jiang
2021-05-28 12:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-28 16:37 ` Dave Jiang
2021-05-28 16:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-31 10:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-31 13:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-31 15:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08 15:57 ` Dave Jiang
2021-06-08 17:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-10 13:00 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-22 0:19 ` [PATCH v6 06/20] vfio/mdev: idxd: add PCI config for read/write for mdev Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:19 ` [PATCH v6 07/20] vfio/mdev: idxd: Add administrative commands emulation " Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:19 ` [PATCH v6 08/20] vfio/mdev: idxd: Add mdev device context initialization Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:20 ` [PATCH v6 09/20] vfio/mdev: Add mmio read/write support for mdev Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:20 ` [PATCH v6 10/20] vfio/mdev: idxd: add mdev type as a new wq type Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:20 ` [PATCH v6 11/20] vfio/mdev: idxd: Add basic driver setup for idxd mdev Dave Jiang
2021-05-23 23:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-23 23:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-22 0:20 ` [PATCH v6 12/20] vfio: move VFIO PCI macros to common header Dave Jiang
2021-06-04 3:47 ` Alex Williamson
2021-05-22 0:20 ` [PATCH v6 13/20] vfio/mdev: idxd: add mdev driver registration and helper functions Dave Jiang
2021-05-23 23:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-23 23:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-22 0:20 ` [PATCH v6 14/20] vfio/mdev: idxd: add 1dwq-v1 mdev type Dave Jiang
2021-05-23 23:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-22 0:20 ` [PATCH v6 15/20] vfio/mdev: idxd: ims domain setup for the vdcm Dave Jiang
2021-05-23 23:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-27 0:22 ` Dave Jiang
2021-05-27 0:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-27 1:15 ` Dave Jiang
2021-05-27 1:41 ` Raj, Ashok
2021-05-27 13:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-31 14:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-05-31 16:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-31 23:55 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-06-01 12:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-22 0:20 ` [PATCH v6 16/20] vfio/mdev: idxd: add new wq state for mdev Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:20 ` [PATCH v6 17/20] vfio/mdev: idxd: add error notification from host driver to mediated device Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:20 ` [PATCH v6 18/20] vfio: move vfio_pci_set_ctx_trigger_single to common code Dave Jiang
2021-05-22 0:21 ` [PATCH v6 19/20] vfio: mdev: Add device request interface Dave Jiang
2021-05-23 22:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-22 0:21 ` [PATCH v6 20/20] vfio: mdev: idxd: setup request interrupt Dave Jiang
2021-05-23 23:22 ` [PATCH v6 00/20] Add VFIO mediated device support and DEV-MSI support for the idxd driver Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-02 15:40 ` Dave Jiang
2021-06-02 23:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-03 1:11 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-06-03 1:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-03 5:52 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-06-03 11:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2021-06-04 3:40 ` Alex Williamson
2021-06-07 6:22 ` Tian, Kevin
2021-06-07 18:13 ` Dave Jiang
2021-06-07 19:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-08 16:02 ` Dave Jiang
2021-06-11 18:21 ` Dave Jiang
2021-06-11 18:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-06-07 18:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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