[PATCH V2 6/8] mdev: introduce virtio device and its device ops

[Jason Wang]

On 2019/10/1 上午5:36, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:25:13 +0000
> Parav Pandit <parav at mellanox.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 6:07 PM
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>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 6/8] mdev: introduce virtio device and its device ops
>>>
>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:53:30 +0800
>>> Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>    
>>>> This patch implements basic support for mdev driver that supports
>>>> virtio transport for kernel virtio driver.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>   include/linux/mdev.h        |   2 +
>>>>   include/linux/virtio_mdev.h | 145
>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>   2 files changed, 147 insertions(+)
>>>>   create mode 100644 include/linux/virtio_mdev.h
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/mdev.h b/include/linux/mdev.h index
>>>> 3414307311f1..73ac27b3b868 100644
>>>> --- a/include/linux/mdev.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/mdev.h
>>>> @@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ struct mdev_device *mdev_from_dev(struct device
>>>> *dev);
>>>>
>>>>   enum {
>>>>   	MDEV_ID_VFIO = 1,
>>>> +	MDEV_ID_VIRTIO = 2,
>>>> +	MDEV_ID_VHOST = 3,
>>> MDEV_ID_VHOST isn't used yet here.  Also, given the strong interdependence
>>> between the class_id and the ops structure, we might wand to define them in
>>> the same place.  Thanks,
>>>    
>> When mlx5_core creates mdevs (parent->ops->create() and it wants to
>> bind to mlx5 mdev driver (which does mdev_register_driver()), mlx5
>> core driver will publish MDEV_ID_MLX5_NET defined in central place as
>> include/linux/mdev.h without any ops structure. Because such ops are
>> not relevant. It uses usual, standard ops probe() remove() on the
>> mdev (similar to a regular PCI device). So for VHOST case ops may be
>> closely related to ID, but not for other type of ID.
>>
>> Just want to make sure, that scope of ID covers this case.
> AIUI, these device-ops are primarily meant to have 1:N multiplexing of
> the mdev bus driver.  One mdev bus driver supports N vendor drivers via
> a common "protocol" defined by this structure.  vfio-mdev supports
> GVT-g, GRID, and several sample drivers.  I think Jason and Tiwei are
> attempting something similar if we have multiple vendors that may
> provide virtio/vhost parent drivers.


Exactly.


>   If you have a 1:1 model with
> mlx5 where you're not trying to abstract a common channel between the
> mdev bus driver and the mdev vendor driver, then I suppose you might
> not use the device-ops capabilities of the mdev-core.


Yes, current proposed API allows NULL to be passed as device ops.

Thanks


>   Did I interpret
> the question correctly?  I think that's probably fine, mdev-core
> shouldn't have any dependencies on the device-ops and we shouldn't
> really be dictating the bus/vendor link through mdev.  Thanks,
>
> Alex