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

[Alex Williamson]

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.  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.  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