linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] Add VFIO mediated device support and IMS support for the idxd driver.

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Date:   Wed, 13 May 2020 09:40:16 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
To:     "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
Cc:     "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
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        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] Add VFIO mediated device support and IMS
 support for the idxd driver.

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 08:30:15AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:

> When talking about virtualization, here the target is unmodified guest 
> kernel driver which expects seeing the raw controllability of queues 
> as defined by device spec. In idxd, such controllability includes enable/
> disable SVA, dedicated or shared WQ, size, threshold, privilege, fault 
> mode, max batch size, and many other attributes. Different guest OS 
> has its own policy of using all or partial available controllability. 
> 
> When talking about application, we care about providing an efficient
> programming interface to userspace. For example with uacce, we
> allow an application to submit vaddr-based workloads to a reserved
> WQ with kernel bypassed. But it's not necessary to export the raw
> controllability of the reserved WQ to userspace, and we still rely on
> kernel driver to configure it including bind_mm. I'm not sure whether 
> uacce would like to evolve as a generic queue management system
> including non-SVA and all vendor specific raw capabilities as 
> expected by all kinds of guest kernel drivers. It sounds like not 
> worthwhile at this point, given that we already have an highly efficient 
> SVA interface for user applications.

Like I already said, you should get the people who care about this
stuff to support emulation in the kernel. I think it has not been
explained well in past.

Most Intel info on SIOV draws a close parallel to SRIOV and I think
people generally assume, that like SRIOV, SIOV does not include kernel
side MMIO emulations.

> If in the future, there do have such requirement of delegating raw
> WQ controllability to pure userspace applications for DMA engines, 
> and there is be a well-defined uAPI to cover a large common set of 
> controllability across multiple vendors, we will look at that option for
> sure.

All this Kernel bypass stuff is 'HW specific' by nature, you should
not expect to have general interfaces.

Jason