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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:26:23 -0700
From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rust: pci: expose is_virtfn() and reject VFs in
nova-core
On 9/30/25 5:26 PM, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Wed Oct 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM JST, John Hubbard wrote:
>> Post-Kangrejos, the approach for NovaCore + VFIO has changed a bit: the
>> idea now is that VFIO drivers, for NVIDIA GPUs that are supported by
>> NovaCore, should bind directly to the GPU's VFs. (An earlier idea was to
>> let NovaCore bind to the VFs, and then have NovaCore call into the upper
>> (VFIO) module via Aux Bus, but this turns out to be awkward and is no
>> longer in favor.) So, in order to support that:
>>
>> Nova-core must only bind to Physical Functions (PFs) and regular PCI
>> devices, not to Virtual Functions (VFs) created through SR-IOV.
>
> Naive question: will guests also see the passed-through VF as a VF? If
> so, wouldn't this change also prevents guests from using Nova?
I'm also new to this area. I would expect that guests *must* see
these as PFs, otherwise...nothing makes any sense.
Maybe Alex Williamson or Jason Gunthorpe (+CC) can chime in.
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
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