From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>,
"alex.williamson@redhat.com" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
"saeedm@nvidia.com" <saeedm@nvidia.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"kuba@kernel.org" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Martins, Joao" <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>,
"leonro@nvidia.com" <leonro@nvidia.com>,
"maorg@nvidia.com" <maorg@nvidia.com>,
"cohuck@redhat.com" <cohuck@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 vfio 03/11] vfio: Introduce DMA logging uAPIs
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:05:18 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220721120518.GZ4609@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN9PR11MB5276B26F76F409BE27E593758C919@BN9PR11MB5276.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 08:45:10AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > + * will format its internal logging to match the reporting page size, possibly
> > + * by replicating bits if the internal page size is lower than requested.
>
> what's the purpose of this? I didn't quite get why an user would want to
> start tracking in one page size and then read back the dirty bitmap in
> another page size...
There may be multiple kernel trackers that are working with different
underlying block sizes, so the concept is userspace decides what block
size it wants to work in and the kernel side transparently adapts. The
math is simple so putting it in the kernel is convenient.
Effectively the general vision is that qemu would allocate one
reporting buffer and then invoke these IOCTLs in parallel on all the
trackers then process the single bitmap. Forcing qemu to allocate
bitmaps per tracker page size is just inefficient.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-21 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-14 8:12 [PATCH V2 vfio 00/11] Add device DMA logging support for mlx5 driver Yishai Hadas
2022-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 01/11] net/mlx5: Introduce ifc bits for page tracker Yishai Hadas
2022-07-21 8:28 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-07-21 8:43 ` Yishai Hadas
2022-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 02/11] net/mlx5: Query ADV_VIRTUALIZATION capabilities Yishai Hadas
2022-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 03/11] vfio: Introduce DMA logging uAPIs Yishai Hadas
2022-07-18 22:29 ` Alex Williamson
2022-07-19 1:39 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-07-19 5:40 ` Kirti Wankhede
2022-07-19 7:49 ` Yishai Hadas
2022-07-19 19:57 ` Alex Williamson
2022-07-19 20:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-21 8:45 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-07-21 12:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2022-07-25 7:20 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-07-25 14:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-26 7:07 ` Tian, Kevin
[not found] ` <56bd06d3-944c-18da-86ed-ae14ce5940b7@nvidia.com>
2022-07-25 7:30 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-07-26 8:37 ` Yishai Hadas
2022-07-26 14:03 ` Alex Williamson
2022-07-26 15:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-28 4:05 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-07-28 12:06 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-29 3:01 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-07-29 14:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 04/11] vfio: Move vfio.c to vfio_main.c Yishai Hadas
2022-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 05/11] vfio: Add an IOVA bitmap support Yishai Hadas
2022-07-18 22:30 ` Alex Williamson
2022-07-18 22:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-19 19:01 ` Alex Williamson
2022-07-20 1:57 ` Joao Martins
2022-07-20 16:47 ` Alex Williamson
2022-07-20 17:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-20 18:16 ` Joao Martins
2022-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 06/11] vfio: Introduce the DMA logging feature support Yishai Hadas
2022-07-18 22:30 ` Alex Williamson
2022-07-19 9:19 ` Yishai Hadas
2022-07-19 19:25 ` Alex Williamson
2022-07-19 20:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-21 8:54 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-07-21 11:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-25 7:38 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-07-25 14:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-26 7:34 ` Tian, Kevin
2022-07-26 15:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 07/11] vfio/mlx5: Init QP based resources for dirty tracking Yishai Hadas
2022-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 08/11] vfio/mlx5: Create and destroy page tracker object Yishai Hadas
2022-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 09/11] vfio/mlx5: Report dirty pages from tracker Yishai Hadas
2022-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 10/11] vfio/mlx5: Manage error scenarios on tracker Yishai Hadas
2022-07-14 8:12 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 11/11] vfio/mlx5: Set the driver DMA logging callbacks Yishai Hadas
2022-07-21 8:26 ` [PATCH V2 vfio 00/11] Add device DMA logging support for mlx5 driver Tian, Kevin
2022-07-21 8:55 ` Yishai Hadas
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