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Tue, 7 May 2024 15:10:29 GMT Received: from smtpav02.fra02v.mail.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D8820043; Tue, 7 May 2024 15:10:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpav02.fra02v.mail.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7E782004E; Tue, 7 May 2024 15:10:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [9.79.183.213] (unknown [9.79.183.213]) by smtpav02.fra02v.mail.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Tue, 7 May 2024 15:10:23 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <1c277ae0-14cc-4d79-a7a1-455ed996b67a@linux.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 20:40:23 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] powerpc: pSeries: vfio: iommu: Re-enable support for SPAPR TCE VFIO Content-Language: en-US To: Jason Gunthorpe References: <171450753489.10851.3056035705169121613.stgit@linux.ibm.com> <20240501140942.GA1723318@ziepe.ca> <703f15b0-d895-4518-9886-0827a6c4e769@amd.com> <8c28a1d5-ac84-445b-80e6-a705e6d7ff1b@linux.ibm.com> <20240506174357.GF901876@ziepe.ca> From: Shivaprasad G Bhat In-Reply-To: <20240506174357.GF901876@ziepe.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 X-Proofpoint-GUID: J4Gsgo8V3_3M_QYRnBmu-upxnqO-CmvX X-Proofpoint-ORIG-GUID: TasHpAtQk2MCFNjakLGTISoKhTN09Sii X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=baseguard engine=ICAP:2.0.293,Aquarius:18.0.1039,Hydra:6.0.650,FMLib:17.11.176.26 definitions=2024-05-07_08,2024-05-06_02,2023-05-22_02 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 priorityscore=1501 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 lowpriorityscore=0 clxscore=1015 phishscore=0 mlxlogscore=960 malwarescore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.12.0-2404010000 definitions=main-2405070104 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, aik@ozlabs.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oohall@gmail.com, ruscur@russell.cc, brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com, robh@kernel.org, svaidy@linux.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@kernel.org, joel@jms.id.au, naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com, msuchanek@suse.de, jroedel@suse.de, gbatra@linux.vnet.ibm.com, npiggin@gmail.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, mahesh@linux.ibm.com, tpearson@raptorengineering.com, Alexey Kardashevskiy , vaibhav@linux.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" Hi Jason, On 5/6/24 23:13, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 12:33:53AM +0530, Shivaprasad G Bhat wrote: >> We have legacy workloads using VFIO in userspace/kvm guests running >> on downstream distro kernels. We want these workloads to be able to >> continue running on our arch. > It has been broken since 2018, I don't find this reasoning entirely > reasonable :\ Though upstream has been broken since 2018 for pSeries, the breaking patches got trickled into downstream distro kernels only in the last few years. The legacy workloads that were running on PowerNV with these downstream distros are now broken on the pSeries logical partitions without the fixes in this series. >> I firmly believe the refactoring in this patch series is a step in >> that direction. > But fine, as long as we are going to fix it. PPC really needs this to > be resolved to keep working. Thanks, We are working on it. Regards, Shivaprasad > > Jason