On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 02:20 -0800, Neo Jia wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 09:45:14PM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
From: Alex Williamson [mailto:address@hidden
Hi Alex, Kevin and Jike,
(Seems I shouldn't use attachment, resend it again to the list, patches are
inline at the end)
Thanks for adding me to this technical discussion, a great opportunity
for us to design together which can bring both Intel and NVIDIA vGPU solution to
KVM platform.
Instead of directly jumping to the proposal that we have been working on
recently for NVIDIA vGPU on KVM, I think it is better for me to put out couple
quick comments / thoughts regarding the existing discussions on this thread as
fundamentally I think we are solving the same problem, DMA, interrupt and MMIO.
Then we can look at what we have, hopefully we can reach some consensus soon.
Yes, and since you're creating and destroying the vgpu here, this is
where I'd expect a struct device to be created and added to an IOMMU
group. The lifecycle management should really include links between
the vGPU and physical GPU, which would be much, much easier to do with
struct devices create here rather than at the point where we start
doing vfio "stuff".
Infact to keep vfio-vgpu to be more generic, vgpu device creation and management
can be centralized and done in vfio-vgpu. That also include adding to IOMMU
group and VFIO group.
Is this really a good idea? The concept of a vgpu is not unique to
vfio, we want vfio to be a driver for a vgpu, not an integral part of
the lifecycle of a vgpu. That certainly doesn't exclude adding
infrastructure to make lifecycle management of a vgpu more consistent
between drivers, but it should be done independently of vfio. I'll go
back to the SR-IOV model, vfio is often used with SR-IOV VFs, but vfio
does not create the VF, that's done in coordination with the PF making
use of some PCI infrastructure for consistency between drivers.
It seems like we need to take more advantage of the class and driver
core support to perhaps setup a vgpu bus and class with vfio-vgpu just
being a driver for those devices.