Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/4] pcie: Add support for Single Root I/O Virtualization

[Knut Omang <knut.omang@oracle.com>]

On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 16:14 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 10:01:31AM +0200, Knut Omang wrote:
> > This patch set implements generic support for SR/IOV as an
> > extension to the
> > core PCIe functionality, similar to the way other capabilities such
> > as AER
> > is implemented.
> 
> We are in soft freeze now so I'd rather defer this until
> 2.5 is out.

Ok, I kind of suspected that the 2.5 train had left, no problem..

> This should give you some time to come up with an actual
> user for this API.
> 
> If it helps, I can park these patches on a branch in my tree so
> you don't need to keep reposting them.

Yes, that would be great,

Thanks,
Knut

> > There is no implementation of any device that provides
> > SR/IOV support included, but I have implemented a test
> > example which can be found together with this patch set here:
> > 
> >   git://github.com/knuto/qemu.git sriov_patches_v6
> > 
> > Testing with the example device was documented here:
> > 
> >   http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-08/msg05110.
> > html
> > 
> > Changes since v5:
> >   - Fix reset logic that got broken in v5. Reset logic is now equal
> > to
> >     that of v4 except that two ambiguous initialization statements
> >     (introduced during rebase) have been removed
> >   - From private feedback, added observer functions for SR/IOV
> > values
> >     in pcie_sriov.h. To ease access to the vf number, the SR/IOV VF
> > device
> >     struct extension now caches this value.
> > 
> > Changes since v4:
> >   - Mostly based on feeback in Marcel Apfelbaum's review:
> >   - The patch with changes to pci_regs.h got eliminated by rebase
> >   - Added some documentation as an additional patch
> >   - Some trivial fixes moved to separate patch
> >   - Modified code to use error and trace functions instead of
> > printfs
> > 
> > Changes since v3:
> >   - Reworked 'pci: Update pci_regs header' to merge kernel version
> > improvements
> >     with the current qemu version instead of copying from the
> > kernel version.
> > 
> > Changes since v2:
> >   - Rebased onto 090d0bfd
> >   - Un-qdev'ified - avoids issues when resetting NUM_VFS
> >   - Fixed handling of vf_offset/vf_stride
> > 
> > Changes since v1:
> >   - Rebased on top of latest master, eliminating prereqs.
> >   - Implement proper support for VF_STRIDE, VF_OFFSET and
> > SUP_PGSIZE
> >     Time better spent fixing it than explaining what the previous
> >     limitations were.
> >     - Added new first patch to fix pci bug related to this
> >   - Split out patch to pci_default_config_write to a separate patch
> > 2
> >     to highlight bug fix.
> >   - Refactored out logic into new source files
> >     hw/pci/pcie_sriov.c include/hw/pci/pcie_sriov.h
> >     similar to pcie_aer.c/h.
> >   - Rename functions and introduce structs to better separate
> >     pf and vf functionality.
> >   - Replaced is_vf member with pci_is_vf() function abstraction
> >   - Fix numerous syntax, whitespace and comment issues
> >     according to Michael's review.
> >   - Fix memory leaks.
> >   - Removed igb example device - a rebased version available
> >     on github instead.
> > 
> > Knut Omang (4):
> >   pci: Make use of the devfn property when registering new devices
> >   pcie: Add support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR/IOV)
> >   pcie: Add some SR/IOV API documentation in docs/pcie_sriov.txt
> >   pcie: A few minor fixes (type+code simplify)
> > 
> >  docs/pcie_sriov.txt         | 115 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  hw/pci/Makefile.objs        |   2 +-
> >  hw/pci/pci.c                |  97 ++++++++++++----
> >  hw/pci/pcie.c               |   9 +-
> >  hw/pci/pcie_sriov.c         | 277
> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/hw/pci/pci.h        |  11 +-
> >  include/hw/pci/pcie.h       |   6 +
> >  include/hw/pci/pcie_sriov.h |  67 +++++++++++
> >  include/qemu/typedefs.h     |   2 +
> >  trace-events                |   5 +
> >  10 files changed, 561 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 docs/pcie_sriov.txt
> >  create mode 100644 hw/pci/pcie_sriov.c
> >  create mode 100644 include/hw/pci/pcie_sriov.h
> > 
> > --
> > 2.4.3