From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
"Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@intel.com>,
"joro@8bytes.org" <joro@8bytes.org>,
"robin.murphy@arm.com" <robin.murphy@arm.com>,
"eric.auger@redhat.com" <eric.auger@redhat.com>,
"nicolinc@nvidia.com" <nicolinc@nvidia.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com" <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>,
"iommu@lists.linux.dev" <iommu@lists.linux.dev>,
"baolu.lu@linux.intel.com" <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>,
"Duan, Zhenzhong" <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>,
"Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2 0/4] vfio-pci support pasid attach/detach
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:47:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BN9PR11MB5276B3F627368E869ED828558C112@BN9PR11MB5276.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240423120139.GD194812@nvidia.com>
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 8:02 PM
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 07:43:27AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > I'm not sure how userspace can fully handle this w/o certain assistance
> > from the kernel.
> >
> > So I kind of agree that emulated PASID capability is probably the only
> > contract which the kernel should provide:
> > - mapped 1:1 at the physical location, or
> > - constructed at an offset according to DVSEC, or
> > - constructed at an offset according to a look-up table
> >
> > The VMM always scans the vfio pci config space to expose vPASID.
> >
> > Then the remaining open is what VMM could do when a VF supports
> > PASID but unfortunately it's not reported by vfio. W/o the capability
> > of inspecting the PASID state of PF, probably the only feasible option
> > is to maintain a look-up table in VMM itself and assumes the kernel
> > always enables the PASID cap on PF.
>
> I'm still not sure I like doing this in the kernel - we need to do the
> same sort of thing for ATS too, right?
VF is allowed to implement ATS.
PRI has the same problem as PASID.
>
> It feels simpler if the indicates if PASID and ATS can be supported
> and userspace builds the capability blocks.
this routes back to Alex's original question about using different
interfaces (a device feature vs. PCI PASID cap) for VF and PF.
Are we OK with that divergence?
>
> There are migration considerations too - the blocks need to be
> migrated over and end up in the same place as well..
>
Can you elaborate what is the problem with the kernel emulating
the PASID cap in this consideration?
Does it talk about a case where the devices between src/dest are
different versions (but backward compatible) with different unused
space layout and the kernel approach may pick up different offsets
while the VMM can guarantee the same offset?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-23 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-12 8:21 [PATCH v2 0/4] vfio-pci support pasid attach/detach Yi Liu
2024-04-12 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ida: Add ida_get_lowest() Yi Liu
2024-04-16 16:03 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-18 7:02 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-18 16:23 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-18 17:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-19 13:43 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-19 13:55 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-19 14:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-23 7:19 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-19 13:40 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-12 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] vfio-iommufd: Support pasid [at|de]tach for physical VFIO devices Yi Liu
2024-04-16 9:01 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-16 9:24 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-16 9:47 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-18 7:04 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-23 12:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-24 0:33 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-24 4:48 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-12 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] vfio: Add VFIO_DEVICE_PASID_[AT|DE]TACH_IOMMUFD_PT Yi Liu
2024-04-16 9:13 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-16 9:36 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-23 12:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-12 8:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] vfio: Report PASID capability via VFIO_DEVICE_FEATURE ioctl Yi Liu
2024-04-16 9:40 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-16 17:57 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-17 7:09 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-17 20:25 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-18 0:21 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-18 8:23 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-18 16:34 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-23 12:39 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-24 0:24 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-24 13:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-16 8:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] vfio-pci support pasid attach/detach Tian, Kevin
2024-04-16 17:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-17 7:16 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-17 12:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-17 23:02 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-18 0:06 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-18 9:03 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-18 20:37 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-19 5:52 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-19 16:35 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-23 7:43 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-23 12:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-23 23:47 ` Tian, Kevin [this message]
2024-04-24 0:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-24 2:57 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-24 12:29 ` Baolu Lu
2024-04-24 14:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-24 5:19 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-24 14:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-24 18:38 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-24 18:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-24 18:24 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-24 18:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-24 20:13 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-26 14:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-26 20:13 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-28 6:19 ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-29 7:43 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-29 17:15 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-29 17:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-27 5:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-04-25 9:26 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-25 12:58 ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-26 9:01 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-19 13:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-23 7:58 ` Yi Liu
2024-04-23 12:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-19 13:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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