From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Jacob Pan <jacob.pan@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>,
Mukesh R <mrathor@linux.microsoft.com>,
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"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/9] mshv: Introduce basic mshv bridge device for VFIO to build upon
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 21:10:06 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260904001006.GO4157646@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260903114647.00005a1f@linux.microsoft.com>
On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 11:46:47AM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2026 14:40:14 -0300
> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 09:13:28AM -0700, Wei Liu wrote:
> > > > Does mshv use KVM at all? Can a kvm fd describe the partition?
> > >
> > > No. MSHV doesn't use KVM. We don't have a kvm fd. We have an mshv
> > > fd to describe the partition. They are different virtualization
> > > solutions.
> > >
> > > In the ideal world, the fd should be hypervisor agnostic, not tied
> > > to kvm.
> >
> > There is a patch generalizing vfio to work on FDs instead of KVM
> > structures:
> >
> > https://patch.msgid.link/20260903-vfio-v2-1-ef4cd4190ae7@linux.ibm.com
> >
> > That's probably a good step long that line.
> Yeah, ideally, it would be removing/rename device/group->kvm to
> something like group/device->vm_file?
Maybe it could? Do you need the file in VFIO land or is what you
showed in the other message OK?
I think it should be broadly fine to pass in the file that way and
hold a reference on it in the viommu object..
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-04 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-31 22:34 [PATCH v5 0/9] PCI passthru on Hyper-V Mukesh R
2026-07-31 22:34 ` [PATCH v5 1/9] mshv: Provide a way to get partition ID if running in a VMM process Mukesh R
2026-07-31 22:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-31 22:34 ` [PATCH v5 2/9] mshv: Add declarations and definitions for VFIO-MSHV bridge device Mukesh R
2026-07-31 22:42 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-31 22:34 ` [PATCH v5 3/9] mshv: Introduce basic mshv bridge device for VFIO to build upon Mukesh R
2026-07-31 22:49 ` sashiko-bot
2026-09-02 18:19 ` Jacob Pan
2026-09-03 14:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-03 16:13 ` Wei Liu
2026-09-03 17:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-09-03 18:46 ` Jacob Pan
2026-09-04 0:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2026-09-03 18:34 ` Jacob Pan
2026-07-31 22:34 ` [PATCH v5 4/9] mshv: Add ioctl support for MSHV-VFIO bridge device Mukesh R
2026-07-31 22:49 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-31 22:34 ` [PATCH v5 5/9] mshv: Import data structs around device passthru from hyperv headers Mukesh R
2026-07-31 22:45 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-31 22:34 ` [PATCH v5 6/9] PCI: hv: Export hv_build_devid_type_pci() and change return type Mukesh R
2026-07-31 22:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-18 22:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2026-07-31 22:34 ` [PATCH v5 7/9] x86/hyperv: Implement Hyper-V virtual IOMMU Mukesh R
2026-07-31 22:48 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-05 12:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-18 21:01 ` Jacob Pan
2026-08-18 23:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-18 23:39 ` Mukesh R
2026-08-18 23:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-19 0:13 ` Mukesh R
2026-08-19 12:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-08-19 16:29 ` Jacob Pan
2026-08-19 16:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2026-07-31 22:34 ` [PATCH v5 8/9] mshv: Populate mmio mappings for PCI passthru Mukesh R
2026-07-31 22:54 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-31 22:34 ` [PATCH v5 9/9] mshv: Disable movable regions upfront if device passthru Mukesh R
2026-07-31 22:57 ` sashiko-bot
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