RE: [virtio-dev] [RFC] virtio-iommu version 0.4

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Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Philippe Brucker [mailto:jean-philippe.brucker@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2017 3:42 PM
> To: Adam Tao <taozhe1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: iommu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtio-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> will.deacon@xxxxxxx; robin.murphy@xxxxxxx; lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx;
> mst@xxxxxxxxxx; jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx; marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx;
> eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx; eric.auger.pro@xxxxxxxxx; Bharat Bhushan
> <bharat.bhushan@xxxxxxx>; peterx@xxxxxxxxxx; kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [RFC] virtio-iommu version 0.4
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> On 16/08/17 05:08, Adam Tao wrote:
> >> * There is a working Qemu prototype [3], thanks to Eric Auger and Bharat
> >>   Bhushan.
> > Hi, Brucker
> > I read the related spec for virtio IOMMU, I am wondering if we support
> > both the virtual and physical devices in the guest to use the virtio
> > IOMMU, how can we config the related address translation for the
> > different type of devices.
> > e.g.
> > 1. for Virtio devs(e.g. virtio-net), we can change the memmap table
> > used by the vhost device.
> > 2. for physical devices we can directly config the IOMMU/SMMU on the
> > host.
> >
> > So do you know are there any RFCs for the back-end implementation for
> > the virtio-IOMMU thanks Adam
> 
> Eric's series [3] adds support for virtual devices (I'v only had time to test
> virtio-net so far, but as vhost-iotlb seems to be supported by Qemu, it should
> work with vhost-net as well). Bharat is working on the VFIO backend for
> physical devices. As far as I'm aware, his latest version is:
> 
> [7] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg04094.html

I am working on newer version which will be based on Eric-v3.
Actually I wanted to include the fix for the issue reported by Eric, it fails if we assign more than one interface.
I reproduced the issues on my side and know the root cause. I am working on fixing this.

Thanks
-Bharat

> 
> Thanks,
> Jean
> 
> 
> >> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg147990.html
> >> [2] git://linux-arm.org/virtio-iommu.git branch viommu/v0.4
> >>     http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=virtio-
> iommu.git;a=blob;f=dist/v0.4/virtio-iommu-v0.4.pdf
> >>     I reiterate the disclaimers: don't use this document as a reference,
> >>     it's a draft. It's also not an OASIS document yet. It may be riddled
> >>     with mistakes. As this is a working draft, it is unstable and I do not
> >>     guarantee backward compatibility of future versions.
> >> [3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-arm/2017-08/msg00004.html
> >> [4] git://linux-arm.org/linux-jpb.git virtio-iommu/v0.4
> >>     Warning: UAPI headers have changed! They didn't follow the spec,
> >>     please update. (Use branch v0.1, that has the old headers, for the
> >>     Qemu prototype [3])
> >> [5] git://linux-arm.org/kvmtool-jpb.git virtio-iommu/v0.4
> >>     Warning: command-line has changed! Use --viommu vfio[,opts] and
> >>     --viommu virtio[,opts] to instantiate a device.
> >> [6]
> >> http://www.linux-arm.org/git?p=virtio-iommu.git;a=tree;f=dist/diffs




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