On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 10:24:45AM +0800, Kenneth Lee wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/40] iommu/sva: Manage process address spaces
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> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 09:39:59AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 25 May 2018 09:39:59 +0100
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> > +CC Kenneth Lee
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> > On Fri, 25 May 2018 09:33:11 +0300
> > Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 04:04:39PM +0100, Jean-Philippe Brucker wrote:
> > > > On 24/05/18 12:50, Ilias Apalodimas wrote:
> > > > >> Interesting, I hadn't thought about this use-case before. At first I
> > > > >> thought you were talking about mdev devices assigned to VMs, but I
> > > > >> think
> > > > >> you're referring to mdevs assigned to userspace drivers instead? Out
> > > > >> of
> > > > >> curiosity, is it only theoretical or does someone actually need
> > > > >> this?
> > > > >
> > > > > There has been some non upstreamed efforts to have mdev and produce
> > > > > userspace
> > > > > drivers. Huawei is using it on what they call "wrapdrive" for crypto
> > > > > devices and
> > > > > we did a proof of concept for ethernet interfaces. At the time we
> > > > > choose not to
> > > > > involve the IOMMU for the reason you mentioned, but having it there
> > > > > would be
> > > > > good.
> > > >
> > > > I'm guessing there were good reasons to do it that way but I wonder, is
> > > > it not simpler to just have the kernel driver create a /dev/foo, with a
> > > > standard ioctl/mmap/poll interface? Here VFIO adds a layer of
> > > > indirection, and since the mediating driver has to implement these
> > > > operations already, what is gained?
> > > The best reason i can come up with is "common code". You already have one
> > > API
> > > doing that for you so we replicate it in a /dev file?
> > > The mdev approach still needs extentions to support what we tried to do
> > > (i.e
> > > mdev bus might need yo have access on iommu_ops), but as far as i
> > > undestand it's
> > > a possible case.
>
> Hi, Jean, Please allow me to share my understanding here:
> https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/35489035
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> The reason we do not use the /dev/foo scheme is that the devices to be
> shared are programmable accelerators. We cannot fix up the kernel driver for
> them.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Jean
> >
> >
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> -Kenneth Lee (Hisilicon)
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