From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Cc: "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Maor Gottlieb <maorg@nvidia.com>,
"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 vfio 9/9] vfio/virtio: Introduce a vfio driver over virtio devices
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:15:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231026091459-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PH0PR12MB5481E1AF869C1296B987A34BDCDDA@PH0PR12MB5481.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 12:40:04PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2023 5:42 PM
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 03:08:12PM +0300, Yishai Hadas wrote:
> > > > > Makes sense ?
> > > > So do I understand correctly that virtio dictates the subsystem
> > > > device ID for all subsystem vendor IDs that implement a legacy
> > > > virtio interface? Ok, but this device didn't actually implement a
> > > > legacy virtio interface. The device itself is not tranistional,
> > > > we're imposing an emulated transitional interface onto it. So did
> > > > the subsystem vendor agree to have their subsystem device ID managed
> > > > by the virtio committee or might we create conflicts? I imagine we
> > > > know we don't have a conflict if we also virtualize the subsystem vendor ID.
> > > >
> > > The non transitional net device in the virtio spec defined as the
> > > below tuple.
> > > T_A: VID=0x1AF4, DID=0x1040, Subsys_VID=FOO, Subsys_DID=0x40.
> > >
> > > And transitional net device in the virtio spec for a vendor FOO is
> > > defined
> > > as:
> > > T_B: VID=0x1AF4,DID=0x1000,Subsys_VID=FOO, subsys_DID=0x1
> > >
> > > This driver is converting T_A to T_B, which both are defined by the
> > > virtio spec.
> > > Hence, it does not conflict for the subsystem vendor, it is fine.
> >
> > You are talking about legacy guests, what 1.X spec says about them is much less
> > important than what guests actually do.
> > Check the INF of the open source windows drivers and linux code, at least.
>
> Linux legacy guest has,
>
> static struct pci_device_id virtio_pci_id_table[] = {
> { 0x1af4, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, 0 },
> { 0 },
> };
> Followed by an open coded driver check for 0x1000 to 0x103f range.
> Do you mean windows driver expects specific subsystem vendor id of 0x1af4?
Look it up, it's open source.
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-17 13:42 [PATCH V1 vfio 0/9] Introduce a vfio driver over virtio devices Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-17 13:42 ` [PATCH V1 vfio 1/9] virtio-pci: Fix common config map for modern device Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-17 13:42 ` [PATCH V1 vfio 2/9] virtio: Define feature bit for administration virtqueue Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-17 13:42 ` [PATCH V1 vfio 3/9] virtio-pci: Introduce admin virtqueue Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-17 13:42 ` [PATCH V1 vfio 4/9] virtio-pci: Introduce admin command sending function Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-17 13:42 ` [PATCH V1 vfio 5/9] virtio-pci: Introduce admin commands Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-17 13:42 ` [PATCH V1 vfio 6/9] virtio-pci: Introduce APIs to execute legacy IO " Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-17 20:33 ` kernel test robot
2023-10-22 1:14 ` kernel test robot
2023-10-24 21:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-25 9:18 ` Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-25 10:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-25 13:00 ` Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-25 13:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-25 13:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-25 14:03 ` Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-25 16:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-25 9:36 ` Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-17 13:42 ` [PATCH V1 vfio 7/9] vfio/pci: Expose vfio_pci_core_setup_barmap() Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-17 13:42 ` [PATCH V1 vfio 8/9] vfio/pci: Expose vfio_pci_iowrite/read##size() Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-17 13:42 ` [PATCH V1 vfio 9/9] vfio/virtio: Introduce a vfio driver over virtio devices Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-17 20:24 ` Alex Williamson
2023-10-18 9:01 ` Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-18 12:51 ` Alex Williamson
2023-10-18 13:06 ` Parav Pandit via Virtualization
[not found] ` <20231018163333.GZ3952@nvidia.com>
2023-10-18 18:29 ` Alex Williamson
2023-10-24 19:57 ` Alex Williamson
2023-10-25 14:35 ` Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-25 16:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-25 19:13 ` Alex Williamson
2023-10-26 12:08 ` Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-26 12:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-26 12:40 ` Parav Pandit via Virtualization
2023-10-26 13:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2023-10-26 13:28 ` Parav Pandit via Virtualization
2023-10-26 15:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-26 15:09 ` Parav Pandit via Virtualization
2023-10-26 15:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-26 15:56 ` Parav Pandit via Virtualization
2023-10-26 17:55 ` Alex Williamson
2023-10-26 19:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-29 16:13 ` Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-22 8:20 ` [PATCH V1 vfio 0/9] " Yishai Hadas via Virtualization
2023-10-22 9:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-23 15:33 ` Alex Williamson
[not found] ` <20231023154257.GZ3952@nvidia.com>
2023-10-23 16:09 ` Alex Williamson
[not found] ` <20231023162043.GB3952@nvidia.com>
2023-10-23 16:45 ` Alex Williamson
2023-10-25 8:34 ` Tian, Kevin
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