From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, "Tian\, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 06/17] PCI: add SIOV and IMS capability detection
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 22:18:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0uvk0oc.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201106131415.GT2620339@nvidia.com>
On Fri, Nov 06 2020 at 09:14, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 09:48:34AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> For instance you could put a "disable IMS" flag in the ACPI tables, in
> the config space of the emuulated root port, or any other areas that
> clearly belong to the platform.
>
> The OS logic would be
> - If no IMS information found then use IMS (Bare metal)
> - If the IMS disable flag is found then
> - If (future) hypercall available and the OS knows how to use it
> then use IMS
> - If no hypercall found, or no OS knowledge, fail IMS
That does not work because an older hypervisor would not have that
disable flag and the guest kernel would assume to be on bare metal (if
no other indicators are there).
Thanks
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-08 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 125+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-30 18:50 [PATCH v4 00/17] Add VFIO mediated device support and DEV-MSI support for the idxd driver Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:50 ` [PATCH v4 01/17] irqchip: Add IMS (Interrupt Message Store) driver Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 22:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 18:51 ` [PATCH v4 02/17] iommu/vt-d: Add DEV-MSI support Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 20:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 20:52 ` Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:51 ` [PATCH v4 03/17] dmaengine: idxd: add theory of operation documentation for idxd mdev Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:51 ` [PATCH v4 04/17] dmaengine: idxd: add support for readonly config devices Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:51 ` [PATCH v4 05/17] dmaengine: idxd: add interrupt handle request support Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:51 ` [PATCH v4 06/17] PCI: add SIOV and IMS capability detection Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 19:51 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-10-30 21:20 ` Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 21:50 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-10-30 22:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-30 22:49 ` Dave Jiang
2020-11-02 13:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-03 2:49 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-03 12:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-04 3:41 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-04 12:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-04 13:34 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-04 13:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-06 9:48 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-06 13:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-06 16:48 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-06 17:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-06 23:47 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-07 0:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-07 1:42 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-08 18:11 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-08 18:34 ` David Woodhouse
2020-11-08 23:25 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-10 14:19 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-10 14:41 ` David Woodhouse
2020-11-08 23:41 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-09 0:05 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-08 18:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-08 19:36 ` David Woodhouse
2020-11-08 22:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-08 23:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-11 15:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-11 16:09 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-11 22:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-11 23:03 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-12 1:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-12 13:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-08 23:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-08 23:36 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-09 7:37 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-09 16:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-08 23:58 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-09 7:59 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-09 11:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-09 17:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-09 22:40 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-09 22:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-10 5:14 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-10 10:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-10 14:13 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-10 14:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-11 2:17 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-12 13:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-11 7:14 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-12 19:32 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2020-11-12 22:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-13 2:42 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-13 12:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-13 13:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-13 16:12 ` Luck, Tony
2020-11-13 17:38 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-14 10:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-14 21:18 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-15 11:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-15 19:31 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-15 22:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-16 0:22 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-16 7:31 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-16 15:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-16 17:56 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-16 18:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-16 20:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-16 23:51 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-17 9:21 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-16 8:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-10 14:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-11 2:35 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-11-08 21:18 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2020-11-08 22:09 ` David Woodhouse
2020-11-08 22:52 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-07 0:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-09 5:25 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-10-30 18:51 ` [PATCH v4 07/17] dmaengine: idxd: add IMS support in base driver Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:51 ` [PATCH v4 08/17] dmaengine: idxd: add device support functions in prep for mdev Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:51 ` [PATCH v4 09/17] dmaengine: idxd: add basic mdev registration and helper functions Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:51 ` [PATCH v4 10/17] dmaengine: idxd: add emulation rw routines Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:52 ` [PATCH v4 11/17] dmaengine: idxd: prep for virtual device commands Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:52 ` [PATCH v4 12/17] dmaengine: idxd: virtual device commands emulation Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:52 ` [PATCH v4 13/17] dmaengine: idxd: ims setup for the vdcm Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 21:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 18:52 ` [PATCH v4 14/17] dmaengine: idxd: add mdev type as a new wq type Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:52 ` [PATCH v4 15/17] dmaengine: idxd: add dedicated wq mdev type Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:52 ` [PATCH v4 16/17] dmaengine: idxd: add new wq state for mdev Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:52 ` [PATCH v4 17/17] dmaengine: idxd: add error notification from host driver to mediated device Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 18:58 ` [PATCH v4 00/17] Add VFIO mediated device support and DEV-MSI support for the idxd driver Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-30 19:13 ` Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 19:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-30 19:23 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-10-30 19:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-30 20:43 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-10-30 22:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-31 2:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-31 23:53 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-02 13:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-02 16:20 ` Raj, Ashok
2020-11-02 17:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-02 18:18 ` Dave Jiang
2020-11-02 18:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-02 18:38 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-02 18:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-02 19:26 ` Dan Williams
2020-10-30 20:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-10-30 20:59 ` Dave Jiang
2020-10-30 22:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
[not found] <draft-875z6ekcj5.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
2020-11-09 14:08 ` [PATCH v4 06/17] PCI: add SIOV and IMS capability detection Thomas Gleixner
2020-11-09 18:10 ` Raj, Ashok
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