linux-kernel - RE: Virtualizing MSI-X on IMS via VFIO

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Date:   Wed, 23 Jun 2021 23:41:09 +0000
From:   "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        "Dey, Megha" <megha.dey@...el.com>,
        "Raj, Ashok" <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
        "Pan, Jacob jun" <jacob.jun.pan@...el.com>,
        "Jiang, Dave" <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>, "Lu, Baolu" <baolu.lu@...el.com>,
        "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "Kumar, Sanjay K" <sanjay.k.kumar@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@...dia.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        "Bjorn Helgaas" <helgaas@...nel.org>
Subject: RE: Virtualizing MSI-X on IMS via VFIO

> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 12:41 AM
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 06:31:34PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> > So IMO creating a proper paravirt interface is the right approach.  It
> > avoids _all_ of the trouble and will be necessary anyway once you want
> > to support devices which store the message/pasid in system memory and
> > not in on-device memory.
> 
> I think this is basically where we got to in the other earlier
> discussion with using IMS natively in VMs - it can't be done
> generically without a new paravirt interface.
> 
> The guest needs a paravirt interface to program the IOMMU to route MSI
> vectors to the guest's vAPIC and then the guest itself can deliver an
> addr/data pair directly to the HW.
> 
> In this mode qemu would not emulate MSI at all so will avoid all the
> problems you identified.

No emulation for PF/VF.

But emulation might be required for mdev for two reasons:

1)   the ims entries for mdevs are collapsed together;
2)   there are other fields in ims entry which cannot allow guest to
      control, e.g. PASID;

> 
> How to build that and provide backwards compat is an open
> question. Instead that thread went into blocking IMS on VM situations..
> 
> Jason