On 6/2/2023 3:03 PM, Brett Creeley wrote:
This is a patchset for a new vendor specific VFIO driver
(pds_vfio) for use with the AMD/Pensando Distributed Services Card
(DSC). This driver makes use of the pds_core driver.
This driver will use the pds_core device's adminq as the VFIO
control path to the DSC. In order to make adminq calls, the VFIO
instance makes use of functions exported by the pds_core driver.
In order to receive events from pds_core, the pds_vfio driver
registers to a private notifier. This is needed for various events
that come from the device.
An ASCII diagram of a VFIO instance looks something like this and can
be used with the VFIO subsystem to provide the VF device VFIO and live
migration support.
.------. .-----------------------.
| QEMU |--| VM .-------------. |
'......' | | Eth VF | |
| | .-------------. |
| | | SR-IOV VF | |
| | '-------------' |
| '------------||---------'
.--------------. ||
|/dev/<vfio_fd>| ||
'--------------' ||
Host Userspace | ||
=================================================== ||
Host Kernel | ||
.--------. ||
|vfio-pci| ||
'--------' ||
.------------------. || ||
| | exported API |<----+ || ||
| '--------------| | || ||
| | .-------------. ||
| pds_core |--->| pds_vfio | ||
'------------------' | '-------------' ||
|| | || ||
09:00.0 notifier 09:00.1 ||
== PCI ===============================================||=====
|| || ||
.----------. .----------. ||
,-----| PF |----------| VF |-------------------,
| '----------' '----------' | VF |
| DSC | data/control |
| | path |
-----------------------------------------------------------
The pds_vfio driver is targeted to reside in drivers/vfio/pci/pds.
It makes use of and introduces new files in the common include/linux/pds
include directory.
Changes:
> v10:
Just as a quick note, I don't plan to push v11 next week as I am on
vacation. I appreciate all the reviews and hope to have updates when I
get back on the week of 6/26.
Thanks,
Brett
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