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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] transport-pci: Introduce legacy registers access using AQ
On 5/10/2023 12:22 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 11:51âAM Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
Just to make sure we are at the same page. 1) if the hardware has configq and we need to make it work for current virtio-pci driver, hypervisor needs to trap guest PCI access and translate it to configq command. This means the hypervisor needs to hide the configq from guests. In this case the configq needs a dedicated DMA address which is what PASID can help.
2) if the hardware can report the device states, unless we want to migrate L2 guest, hypervisor should hide it from L1, so PASID is required to isolate the DMA for guest traffic and device state.
A configq negotiates + discovers new fields for the PCI PF, VF, SF/SIOV devices over PCIe or other transports.
So no need to hide/mediate for hw based devices, like cvq and like data vqs.For vdpa kind of use case it can work like cvq mediation, which I believe is happening without PASID today.
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