netdev - Re: [pci PATCH v4 1/4] pci-iov: Add support for unmanaged SR-IOV

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Date:   Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:01:54 -0700
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Daly, Dan" <dan.daly@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, keith.busch@...el.com,
        netanel@...zon.com, Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@...zon.de>,
        "Wang, Liang-min" <liang-min.wang@...el.com>,
        "Rustad, Mark D" <mark.d.rustad@...el.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, dwmw@...zon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [pci PATCH v4 1/4] pci-iov: Add support for unmanaged SR-IOV

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:59 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 09:59:09PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>> I still struggle to understand why we need this "unmanaged"
>> complication and how a user of the sysfs API is expected to have any
>> idea whether a PF is managed or unmanaged and why they should care.
>> Can't we just have a pci_simple_sriov_configure() helper and ignore
>> this unmanaged business?  Thanks,
>
> Just a pci_simple_sriov_configure is exactly what I envisioned originally.

I can drop the "unmanaged" bits if that is what is wanted, but based
on previous conversations I thought there was some concern about the
kernel loading VFs when there was some foreign entity managing the VFs
other than the kernel.

Thanks.

- Alex