linux-kernel - RE: [Intel-gfx] [ANNOUNCE][RFC] KVMGT - the implementation of Intel GVT-g(full GPU virtualization) for KVM

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Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2014 02:51:11 +0000
From:	"Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
To:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>
CC:	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"White, Michael L" <michael.l.white@...el.com>,
	"Cowperthwaite, David J" <david.j.cowperthwaite@...el.com>,
	"intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"Li, Susie" <susie.li@...el.com>,
	"Dong, Eddie" <eddie.dong@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Haron, Sandra" <sandra.haron@...el.com>,
	"Kay, Allen M" <allen.m.kay@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [Intel-gfx] [ANNOUNCE][RFC] KVMGT - the implementation of Intel
 GVT-g(full GPU virtualization) for KVM

> From: Daniel Vetter
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 6:21 PM
> 
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:55:01AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > On Sa, 2014-12-06 at 12:17 +0800, Jike Song wrote:
> > > I don't know that is exactly needed, we also need to have Windows
> > > driver considered.  However, I'm quite confident that, if things gonna
> > > work for IGD passthrough, it gonna work for GVT-g.
> >
> > I'd suggest to focus on q35 emulation.  q35 is new enough that a version
> > with integrated graphics exists, so the gap we have to close is *much*
> > smaller.
> >
> > In case guests expect a northbridge matching the chipset generation of
> > the graphics device (which I'd expect is the case, after digging a bit
> > in the igd and agpgart linux driver code) I think we should add proper
> > device emulation for them, i.e. comply q35-pcihost with
> > sandybridge-pcihost + ivybridge-pcihost + haswell-pcihost instead of
> > just copying over the pci ids from the host.  Most likely all those
> > variants can share most of the emulation code.
> 
> I don't think i915.ko should care about either northbridge nor pch on
> para-virtualized platforms. We do noodle around in there for the oddball
> memory controller setting and for some display stuff. But neither of that
> really applies to paravirtualized hw. And if there's any case like that we
> should  patch it out (like we do with some of the runtime pm code
> already).

Agree. Now Allen is working on how to avoid those tricky platform
stickiness in Windows gfx driver. We should do same thing in Linux
part too.

Thanks
Kevin