linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] rust: pci: expose is_virtfn() and reject VFs in nova-core

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Message-ID: <c56bd720-d935-4b51-b507-d794df3f66f4@nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 21:13:33 +0000
From: Zhi Wang <zhiw@...dia.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rust: pci: expose is_virtfn() and reject VFs in
 nova-core

On 1.10.2025 17.48, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 08:09:37AM +0000, Zhi Wang wrote:
>>>> But if the guest sees the passed-through VF as a PF, won't it try to
>>>> do things it is not supposed to do like loading the GSP firmware (which
>>>> is managed by the host)?
>>>
>>
>> The guest driver will read PMC_BOOT_1 and check PMC_BOOT_1_VGPU_VF flag
>> to tell if it is running on a VF or a PF.
> 
> Yes exactly, and then novacore should modify its behavior and operate
> the device in the different mode.
> 
> It doesn't matter if a VM is involved or not, a VF driver running side
> by side wit the PF driver should still work.
> 
> There are use cases where people do this, eg they can stick the VF
> into a linux container and use the SRIOV mechanism as a QOS control.
> 'This container only gets 1/4 of a GPU'
> 

Right, I also mentioned the same use cases of NIC/GPU in another reply
to Danilo. But what I get is NVIDIA doesn't use bare metal VF to support
linux container, it seems there have been other solutions. IMHO, it is
not mandatory that we have to support VF driver on bare metal so far
yet.

Z.

> Jason