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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@amd.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
	brett.creeley@amd.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org, drivers@pensando.io,
	jiri@resnulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 net-next 10/14] pds_core: add auxiliary_bus devices
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 09:37:37 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZDlJES8t0nivTQLz@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc39973a-3f57-87d0-ff46-15a09e9b5f58@amd.com>

On Sat, Apr 01, 2023 at 01:15:03PM -0700, Shannon Nelson wrote:

> We have a PF device that has an adminq, VF devices that don't have an
> adminq, and the adminq is needed for some basic setup before the rest of the
> vDPA driver can use the VF.  To access the PF's adminq we set up an
> auxiliary device per feature in each VF - but currently only offer one
> feature (vDPA) and no sub-devices yet.  We're trying to plan for the future.

It is the same remark I gave for the VFIO integration, the bound VF
driver should use pci_iov_get_pf_drvdata() to reach to its PF driver
and operate the admin queue. Make sure to read the comment of the
function to lock it properly.

There should not be a parallel aux device for the VF device, the
purpose of the aux device is not to allow you to find things like
admin queue objects, it is to represent a slice of device
functionality that doesn't already have a struct device
representation.

Drivers should not attempt to 'dual bind' aux device and pci device as
the original vfio patches tried to do.

Jason

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-14 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-30 23:46 [PATCH v8 net-next 00/14] pds_core driver Shannon Nelson
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 01/14] pds_core: initial framework for pds_core PF driver Shannon Nelson
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 02/14] pds_core: add devcmd device interfaces Shannon Nelson
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 03/14] pds_core: health timer and workqueue Shannon Nelson
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 04/14] pds_core: add devlink health facilities Shannon Nelson
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 05/14] pds_core: set up device and adminq Shannon Nelson
2023-04-01  5:07   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-01 19:48     ` Shannon Nelson
2023-04-03 20:37       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 06/14] pds_core: Add adminq processing and commands Shannon Nelson
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 07/14] pds_core: add FW update feature to devlink Shannon Nelson
2023-04-01  5:09   ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-04-01 19:49     ` Shannon Nelson
2023-04-04 14:48       ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 08/14] pds_core: set up the VIF definitions and defaults Shannon Nelson
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 09/14] pds_core: add initial VF device handling Shannon Nelson
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 10/14] pds_core: add auxiliary_bus devices Shannon Nelson
2023-04-01 18:27   ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-04-01 20:15     ` Shannon Nelson
2023-04-03  6:18       ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-04-04 21:44         ` Shannon Nelson
2023-04-05  6:07           ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-04-05 17:17             ` Shannon Nelson
2023-04-14 12:37       ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 11/14] pds_core: devlink params for enabling VIF support Shannon Nelson
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 12/14] pds_core: add the aux client API Shannon Nelson
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 13/14] pds_core: publish events to the clients Shannon Nelson
2023-03-30 23:46 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 14/14] pds_core: Kconfig and pds_core.rst Shannon Nelson

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