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On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 02:12:44AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe
> > Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020 9:35 PM
> > 
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 07:32:24AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > 
> > > > I would prefer to see that the existing userspace interface have the
> > > > extra needed bits for virtualization (eg by having appropriate
> > > > internal kernel APIs to make this easy) and all the emulation to build
> > > > the synthetic PCI device be done in userspace.
> > >
> > > In the end what decides the direction is the amount of changes that
> > > we have to put in kernel, not whether we call it 'emulation'.
> > 
> > No, this is not right. The decision should be based on what will end
> > up more maintable in the long run.
> > 
> > Yes it would be more code to dis-aggregate some of the things
> > currently only bundled as uAPI inside VFIO (eg your vSVA argument
> > above) but once it is disaggregated the maintability of the whole
> > solution will be better overall, and more drivers will be able to use
> > this functionality.
> > 
> 
> Disaggregation is an orthogonal topic to the main divergence in 
> this thread, which is passthrough vs. userspace DMA. I gave detail
> explanation about the difference between the two in last reply.

You said the first issue was related to SVA, which is understandable
because we have no SVA uAPIs outside VFIO.

Imagine if we had some /dev/sva that provided this API and user space
DMA drivers could simply accept an FD and work properly. It is not
such a big leap anymore, nor is it customized code in idxd.

The other pass through issue was IRQ, which last time I looked, was
fairly trivial to connect via interrupt remapping in the kernel, or
could be made extremely trivial.

The last, seemed to be a concern that the current uapi for idxd was
lacking seems idxd specific features, which seems like an quite weak
reason to use VFIO.

Jason