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Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings
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Roedel, Joerg |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings |
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Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:33:56 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:20:00AM -0400, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:03:32PM +0200, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 05:33:00AM -0400, David Gibson wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:14:26AM +0200, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> >
> > > > I don't see a reason to make this meta-grouping static. It would harm
> > > > flexibility on x86. I think it makes things easier on power but there
> > > > are options on that platform to get the dynamic solution too.
> > >
> > > I think several people are misreading what Ben means by "static". I
> > > would prefer to say 'persistent', in that the meta-groups lifetime is
> > > not tied to an fd, but they can be freely created, altered and removed
> > > during runtime.
> >
> > Even if it can be altered at runtime, from a usability perspective it is
> > certainly the best to handle these groups directly in qemu. Or are there
> > strong reasons to do it somewhere else?
>
> Funny, Ben and I think usability demands it be the other way around.
The reason is that you mean the usability for the programmer and I mean
it for the actual user of qemu :)
> If the meta-groups are transient - that is lifetime tied to an fd -
> then any program that wants to use meta-groups *must* know the
> interfaces for creating one, whatever they are.
>
> But if they're persistent, the admin can use other tools to create the
> meta-group then just hand it to a program to use, since the interfaces
> for _using_ a meta-group are identical to those for an atomic group.
>
> This doesn't preclude a program from being meta-group aware, and
> creating its own if it wants to, of course. My guess is that qemu
> would not want to build its own meta-groups, but libvirt probably
> would.
Doing it in libvirt makes it really hard for a plain user of qemu to
assign more than one device to a guest. What I want it that a user just
types
qemu -device vfio,host=00:01.0 -device vfio,host=00:02.0 ...
and it just works. Qemu creates the meta-groups and they are
automatically destroyed when qemu exits. That the programs are not aware
of meta-groups is not a big problem because all software using vfio
needs still to be written :)
Btw, with this concept the programmer can still decide to not use
meta-groups and just multiplex the mappings to all open device-fds it
uses.
Joerg
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, Joerg Roedel, 2011/08/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, aafabbri, 2011/08/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, Roedel, Joerg, 2011/08/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, David Gibson, 2011/08/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, Roedel, Joerg, 2011/08/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, David Gibson, 2011/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings,
Roedel, Joerg <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, Alexander Graf, 2011/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, Joerg Roedel, 2011/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, Alexander Graf, 2011/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, Aaron Fabbri, 2011/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, Chris Wright, 2011/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, Aaron Fabbri, 2011/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, Chris Wright, 2011/08/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, David Gibson, 2011/08/29
Re: [Qemu-devel] kvm PCI assignment & VFIO ramblings, Joerg Roedel, 2011/08/04