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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: "Zeng, Xin" <xin.zeng@intel.com>
Cc: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	"herbert@gondor.apana.org.au" <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	"yishaih@nvidia.com" <yishaih@nvidia.com>,
	"shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com"
	<shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>,
	"linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	qat-linux <qat-linux@intel.com>,
	"Cao, Yahui" <yahui.cao@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/1] vfio/qat: Add vfio_pci driver for Intel QAT SR-IOV VF devices
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:17:16 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240424141716.GO941030@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM4PR11MB55029F7EACB6EB257DCF37BA88102@DM4PR11MB5502.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 03:34:19AM +0000, Zeng, Xin wrote:

> > > Like if it halts all queues and keeps them halted, while still
> > > allowing queue head/tail pointer updats then it would be a fine
> > > implementation for P2P.
> > 
> > Yes that really depends. e.g. a queue accepting direct stores (MOVDIR64B)
> > for work submission may have problem if that store is simply abandoned
> > when the queue is disabled. ENQCMD is possibly OK as unaccepted store
> > will get a retry indicator to software so nothing is lost.
> > 
> > I'll let Xin confirm on the QAT implementation (for all device registers).
> > If it is like Jason's example then we should provide a clear comment
> > clarifying that doing suspend at RUNNING_P2P is safe for QAT as the
> > device MMIO interface still works according to the definition of RUNNING
> > and no request is lost (either from CPU or peer). There is nothing to stop
> > from RUNNING_P2P to STOP because the device doesn't execute any
> > request to further change the internal state other than MMIO.
> > 
> 
> When QAT VF is suspended, all its MMIO registers can still be operated
> correctly, jobs submitted through ring are queued while no jobs are
> processed by the device.  The MMIO states can be safely migrated
> to the target VF during stop-copy stage and restored correctly in the
> target VF. All queued jobs can be resumed then. 
> MOVDIR64B mentioned above is not supported by QAT solution,
> so it's fine to keep current implementation.
> If no objections, I'll append this paragraph of comment in the driver and
> post another version.

Yes that looks good to me.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-24 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-17 14:31 [PATCH v6 0/1] vfio/qat: Add vfio_pci driver for Intel QAT SR-IOV VF device Xin Zeng
2024-04-17 14:31 ` [PATCH v6 1/1] vfio/qat: Add vfio_pci driver for Intel QAT SR-IOV VF devices Xin Zeng
2024-04-18 22:54   ` Alex Williamson
2024-04-19  5:23     ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-19 14:10       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2024-04-23  2:44         ` Tian, Kevin
2024-04-24  3:34           ` Zeng, Xin
2024-04-24 14:17             ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2024-04-18  1:36 ` [PATCH v6 0/1] vfio/qat: Add vfio_pci driver for Intel QAT SR-IOV VF device Yi Liu

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