From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from ws5-mx01.kavi.com (ws5-mx01.kavi.com [34.193.7.191]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FB19EB64DA for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:43:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis.ws5.connectedcommunity.org [10.110.1.242]) by ws5-mx01.kavi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784CFC8DEF for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [10.110.1.242]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0E9986383 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host09.ws5.connectedcommunity.org (host09.ws5.connectedcommunity.org [10.110.1.97]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with QMQP id 5E135986367; Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:43:28 +0000 (UTC) Mailing-List: contact virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org; run by ezmlm List-ID: Sender: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [10.110.1.242]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49BE2986364; Mon, 26 Jun 2023 06:43:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kavi.com X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6600,9927,10752"; a="424862418" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.01,158,1684825200"; d="scan'208";a="424862418" X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6600,9927,10752"; a="715998042" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.01,158,1684825200"; d="scan'208";a="715998042" Message-ID: <1ddd572b-a1d0-74eb-1e31-abb6dafdef3d@intel.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:43:17 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0 Thunderbird/102.12.0 Content-Language: en-US To: Xuan Zhuo , virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, mst@redhat.com, parav@nvidia.com References: <20230626062210.49020-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> From: "Zhu, Lingshan" In-Reply-To: <20230626062210.49020-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [virtio-dev] Re: [virtio-comment] [RFC PATCH] admin-queue: bind the group member to the device On 6/26/2023 2:22 PM, Xuan Zhuo wrote: > The VFs of the SR-IOV are created by the user inside the guest OS, so the virtio > devices don't know about these VFs. Because each VF may be assigned a different role > by the user, the virtio device can not choose one VF to bind random. > So only the user knows how to bind the virtio devices to the VFs. > On the other hand, generally the virtio devices are not created by the user > inside the guest OS. This requires some management platform to participate. > > So the usage of this command: > 1. The user purchases a virtio network card on the management platform, > and sets the ip, queue number, etc. The user obtains the identity of > the network card. > 2. The user creates a VF with echo 8 > sriov_numvfs > 3. The user binds the net crad to a VF with identity through the command > of the patch > > Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo > --- > admin.tex | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/admin.tex b/admin.tex > index 2efd4d7..64d0667 100644 > --- a/admin.tex > +++ b/admin.tex > @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ \subsection{Group administration commands}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virti > \hline \hline > 0x0000 & VIRTIO_ADMIN_CMD_LIST_QUERY & Provides to driver list of commands supported for this group type \\ > 0x0001 & VIRTIO_ADMIN_CMD_LIST_USE & Provides to device list of commands used for this group type \\ > -0x0002 - 0x7FFF & - & Commands using \field{struct virtio_admin_cmd} \\ > +0x0002 & VIRTIO_ADMIN_CMD_BIND_DEVICE & Bind the device to one group member \\ > +0x0003 - 0x7FFF & - & Commands using \field{struct virtio_admin_cmd} \\ > \hline > 0x8000 - 0xFFFF & - & Reserved for future commands (possibly using a different structure) \\ > \hline > @@ -429,6 +430,44 @@ \subsection{Group administration commands}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virti > \field{VF Enable} refer to registers within the SR-IOV Extended > Capability as specified by \hyperref[intro:PCIe]{[PCIe]}. > > +\subsubsection{Bind the device for member} > + > +The VFs of the SR-IOV are created by the user inside the guest OS, so the virtio If the VFs are create in a guest OS, I assume that means the user has passthrough-ed the PF to the guest. For nested, I am not sure whether this is a security issue(affects host pci). > +devices don't know about these VFs. Because each VF may be assigned a different role > +by the user, the virtio device can not choose one VF to bind random. I failed to understand this, once a VF is created, it has a personality, e.g., create a virtio-net VF from a virtio-net PF, and PF knows that. I am not familiar with the background, What do you mean by virtio device choose one VF to bind? > +So only the user knows how to bind the virtio devices to the VFs. > +On the other hand, generally the virtio devices are not created by the user > +inside the guest OS. This requires some management platform to participate. > + > +So we introduce a new admin queue command to bind the VFs and the virtio > +devices. Sorry, failed to process this. Maybe an orchestration sw layer can help? Provision a device on demands and assign it to a guest? Thanks > + > +\begin{lstlisting} > +struct virtio_admin_cmd_bind { > + u64 identity; > +}; > +\end{lstlisting} > + > +The user got the \field{identity} from the management platform, that is not > +included by this spec. > + > +\drivernormative{\paragraph}{Group administration commands}{Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Device groups / Group administration commands / Bind the device for member} > + > +VIRTIO_ADMIN_CMD_BIND_DEVICE requires that the \field{group_member_id} MUST be set. > + > +The \field{identity} is passed by the user. It is the identity of the virtio > +device. > + > +\devicenormative{\paragraph}{Group administration commands}{Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Device groups / Group administration commands / Bind the device for member} > + > +Every device MUST have one unique \field{identity} in the host. > + > +If the PF device can not find the device by the \field{identity}, > +the \field{status} MUST be set to VIRTIO_ADMIN_STATUS_EINVAL. > + > +If the device is found by the \field{identity}, the device MUST work as the > +device of this group member specified by the \field{group_member_id}. > + > \section{Administration Virtqueues}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Administration Virtqueues} > > An administration virtqueue of an owner device is used to submit --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org