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From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>, "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] Add VFIO mediated device support and IMS support for the idxd driver.
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 16:52:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57296ad1-20fe-caf2-b83f-46d823ca0b5f@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200508231610.GO19158@mellanox.com>



On 5/8/2020 4:16 PM, 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...

It went into 5.7 kernel. drivers/misc/uacce. It looks char device exported with 
SVM support.

> 
>> But the needs of generic user space application is significantly
>> different from exporting a more functional device model to guest,
>> which isn't full emulated device. which is why VFIO didn't make
>> sense for native use.
> 
> I'm not sure this is true. We've done these kinds of emulated SIOV
> like things already and there is a huge overlap between what a generic
> user application needs and what the VMM neds. Actually almost a
> perfect subset except for interrupt remapping (which is quite
> trivial).
> 
> The things vfio focuses on, like groups and managing a real config
> space just don't apply here.
> 
>> And when we move things from VFIO which is already established
>> as a general device model and accepted by multiple VMM's it gives
>> instant footing without a whole redesign.
> 
> Yes, I understand, but I think you need to get more people to support
> this idea. From my standpoint this is taking secure lean VMMs and
> putting emulation code back into them, except in a more dangerous
> kernel location. This does not seem like a net win to me.
> 
> You'd be much better to have some userspace library scheme instead of
> being completely tied to a kernel interface for modularity.
> 
>> When we move things from VFIO to uaccel to bolt on the functionality
>> like VFIO, I suspect we would be moving code/functionality from VFIO
>> to Uaccel. I don't know what the net gain would be.
> 
> Most of VFIO functionality is already decomposed inside the kernel,
> and you need most of it to do secure user access anyhow.
> 
>> For mdev, would you agree we can keep the current architecture,
>> and investigate moving some emulation code to user space (say even for
>> standard vfio_pci) and then expand scope later.
> 
> I won't hard NAK this, but I think you need more people to support
> this general idea of more emulation code in the kernel to go ahead -
> particularly since this is one of many future drivers along this
> design.
> 
> It would be good to hear from the VMM teams that this is what they
> want (and why), for instance.
> 
> Jason
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-08 23:53 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 [this message]
2020-05-09  0:09                                     ` Raj, Ashok
2020-05-09 12:21                                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-05-13  2:29                                         ` Jason Wang
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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