From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, maorg@nvidia.com,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, jiri@nvidia.com,
leonro@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH vfio 11/11] vfio/virtio: Introduce a vfio driver over virtio devices
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:20:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230921161834-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230921200121.GA13733@nvidia.com>
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 05:01:21PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 01:58:32PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>
> > > +static const struct pci_device_id virtiovf_pci_table[] = {
> > > + { PCI_DRIVER_OVERRIDE_DEVICE_VFIO(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REDHAT_QUMRANET, PCI_ANY_ID) },
> >
> > libvirt will blindly use this driver for all devices matching this as
> > we've discussed how it should make use of modules.alias. I don't think
> > this driver should be squatting on devices where it doesn't add value
> > and it's not clear whether this is adding or subtracting value in all
> > cases for the one NIC that it modifies. How should libvirt choose when
> > and where to use this driver? What regressions are we going to see
> > with VMs that previously saw "modern" virtio-net devices and now see a
> > legacy compatible device? Thanks,
>
> Maybe this approach needs to use a subsystem ID match?
>
> Jason
Maybe make users load it manually?
Please don't bind to virtio by default, you will break
all guests.
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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>,
jasowang@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, parav@nvidia.com,
feliu@nvidia.com, jiri@nvidia.com, kevin.tian@intel.com,
joao.m.martins@oracle.com, leonro@nvidia.com, maorg@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH vfio 11/11] vfio/virtio: Introduce a vfio driver over virtio devices
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:20:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230921161834-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230921200121.GA13733@nvidia.com>
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 05:01:21PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 01:58:32PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>
> > > +static const struct pci_device_id virtiovf_pci_table[] = {
> > > + { PCI_DRIVER_OVERRIDE_DEVICE_VFIO(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REDHAT_QUMRANET, PCI_ANY_ID) },
> >
> > libvirt will blindly use this driver for all devices matching this as
> > we've discussed how it should make use of modules.alias. I don't think
> > this driver should be squatting on devices where it doesn't add value
> > and it's not clear whether this is adding or subtracting value in all
> > cases for the one NIC that it modifies. How should libvirt choose when
> > and where to use this driver? What regressions are we going to see
> > with VMs that previously saw "modern" virtio-net devices and now see a
> > legacy compatible device? Thanks,
>
> Maybe this approach needs to use a subsystem ID match?
>
> Jason
Maybe make users load it manually?
Please don't bind to virtio by default, you will break
all guests.
--
MST
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2023-09-21 13:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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2023-09-26 19:23 ` Feng Liu via Virtualization
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2023-10-02 18:07 ` Feng Liu via Virtualization
2023-10-02 18:07 ` Feng Liu
2023-09-21 12:40 ` [PATCH vfio 04/11] virtio: Expose the synchronous command helper function Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-09-21 12:40 ` Yishai Hadas
2023-09-21 12:40 ` [PATCH vfio 05/11] virtio-pci: Introduce admin command sending function Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-09-21 12:40 ` Yishai Hadas
2023-09-21 12:40 ` [PATCH vfio 06/11] virtio-pci: Introduce API to get PF virtio device from VF PCI device Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-09-21 12:40 ` Yishai Hadas
2023-09-21 12:40 ` [PATCH vfio 07/11] virtio-pci: Introduce admin commands Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
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2023-09-26 9:45 ` Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
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2023-09-21 12:40 ` [PATCH vfio 09/11] vfio/pci: Expose vfio_pci_iowrite/read##size() Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
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2023-09-27 13:18 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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2023-09-21 12:40 ` [PATCH vfio 11/11] vfio/virtio: Introduce a vfio driver over virtio devices Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
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