Re: [PATCH 8/9] vfio/pci: export nvlink2 support into vendor vfio_pci drivers

Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-11T01:35:38Z

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:20:33PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:

> > It is supposed to match exactly the same match table as the pci_driver
> > above. We *don't* want different behavior from what the standrd PCI
> > driver matcher will do.
>
> This is not a standard PCI driver though

It is now, that is what this patch makes it into. This is why it now
has a struct pci_driver.

> and the main vfio-pci won't have a
> list to match ever.

?? vfio-pci uses driver_override or new_id to manage its match list

> IBM NPU PCI id is unlikely to change ever but NVIDIA keeps making
> new devices which work in those P9 boxes, are you going to keep
> adding those ids to nvlink2gpu_vfio_pci_table?

Certainly, as needed. PCI list updates is normal for the kernel.

> btw can the id list have only vendor ids and not have device ids?

The PCI matcher is quite flexable, see the other patch from Max for
the igd

But best practice is to be as narrow as possible as I hope this will
eventually impact module autoloading and other details.

Jason