[virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] transport-pci: Introduce legacy registers access using AQ

Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-05-15T18:01:58Z

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 06:00:02PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2023 1:56 PM
> >
> > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 05:51:05PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > > > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2023 1:45 PM
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 03:49:44PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > > > > All legacy interface via AQ.
> > > > > All modern interface access via PCI or its own transport between
> > > > > driver and
> > > > device.
> > > >
> > > > I am wondering however about the hypervisor notifications.
> > > > Generally these are the most problematic aspect here I feel. For
> > > > example, how does it interact with VIRTIO_F_NOTIF_CONFIG_DATA? And
> > > > generally, having both guest and host be allowed to access device's BAR
> > seems problematic.
> > > > Can we reserve a PF BAR region for these things or is that too expensive?
> > >
> > > VIRTIO_F_NOTIF_CONFIG_DATA is not present for the legacy.
> >
> > it is not but it just might be required, or it won't be there.
> >
> How can it be required if it not part of it?
> I likely didn't follow your question/comment, can you please explain.

VIRTIO_F_NOTIF_CONFIG_DATA is there presumably for a reason.

> > > For modern device, guest driver will access the device own BAR directly with
> > its own config_data anyway.
> > > Should we reserve a region in the PF BAR for SF/SIOV device?, should device
> > report which BAR/area to use for the given SF/SIOV device?
> > > May be yes, those are different discussions with tradeoff to consider during
> > SIOV discussions. It is not related to VFs.
> >
> > For SIOV it's a given. But we can do this for SRIOV: reserve a PF region per VF.
> Each VF has its own BAR area for driver notifications.

But it is passed through to guest presumably.

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