On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 05:51:05PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> 
> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
> > 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.

> 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.


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