From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
Cc: sudeep.dutt@intel.com, ashutosh.dixit@intel.com,
gregkh <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Vincent Whitchurch <rabinv@axis.com>,
Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ntb@googlegroups.com, Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Allen Hubbe <allenbh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Virtio-over-PCIe on non-MIC
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:07:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a2ifu9X+SXgoDPSFMYwnKr=Yex8_tD4qRimcOQAhuEa8Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190116163253.23780-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 5:33 PM Vincent Whitchurch
<vincent.whitchurch@axis.com> wrote:
>
> The Virtio-over-PCIe framework living under drivers/misc/mic/vop implements a
> generic framework to use virtio between two Linux systems, given shared memory
> and a couple of interrupts. It does not actually require the Intel MIC
> hardware, x86-64, or even PCIe for that matter. This patch series makes it
> buildable on more systems and adds a loopback driver to test it without special
> hardware.
>
> Note that I don't have access to Intel MIC hardware so some testing of the
> patchset (especially the patch "vop: Use consistent DMA") on that platform
> would be appreciated, to ensure that the series does not break anything there.
Hi Vincent,
First of all, I think it is a very good idea to make virtio over PCIe avaialable
more generally. Your patches also make sense here, they mostly fix
portability bugs, so no objection there.
I think we need to take a step back though and discuss what combinations
we actually do want to support. I have not actually read the whole mic/vop
driver, so I don't know if this would be a good fit as a generic interface --
it may or may not be, and any other input would be helpful.
Aside from that, I should note that we have two related subsystems
in the kernel: the PCIe endpoint subsystem maintained by Kishon and
Lorenzo, and the NTB subsystem maintained by Jon, Dave and Allen.
In order to properly support virtio over PCIe, I would hope we can come
up with a user space interface that looks the same way for configuring
virtio drivers in mic, pcie-endpoint and ntb, if at all possible. Have
you looked at those two subsystems?
Arnd
next parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-16 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20190116163253.23780-1-vincent.whitchurch@axis.com>
2019-01-16 17:07 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2019-01-17 10:54 ` [PATCH 0/8] Virtio-over-PCIe on non-MIC Vincent Whitchurch
2019-01-17 12:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-17 15:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-17 15:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-17 15:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-17 15:19 ` Vincent Whitchurch
2019-01-17 15:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-17 15:32 ` Vincent Whitchurch
2019-01-17 15:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-01-17 16:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-17 15:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-17 16:26 ` Vincent Whitchurch
2019-01-17 16:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-17 22:17 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2019-01-18 23:49 ` Stephen Warren
2019-01-21 16:25 ` Vincent Whitchurch
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