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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] content: document SR-IOV driver requirements
On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 15:13:11 +0300 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 11:12:31AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 10:07:01 +0800 > > Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com> wrote: > > > > > Document the driver requirements for the VIRTIO_F_SR_IOV > > > feature bit. > > > > > > Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com> > > > Fixes: https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/13 > > > --- > > > v2: > > > - Fix the commit message (MST); > > > - Improve the wording (MST); > > > - Drop unnecessary parts (MST); > > > > > > content.tex | 15 +++++++++++++++ > > > 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) > > > > > > diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex > > > index be18234..f996fad 100644 > > > --- a/content.tex > > > +++ b/content.tex > > > @@ -5387,6 +5387,21 @@ A driver SHOULD accept VIRTIO_F_IO_BARRIER if it is offered. > > > If VIRTIO_F_IO_BARRIER has been negotiated, a driver MUST use > > > the barriers suitable for hardware devices. > > > > > > +If VIRTIO_F_SR_IOV has been negotiated, a driver MAY enable > > > +virtual functions through the device's PCI SR-IOV capability > > > +structure. A driver MUST NOT negotiate VIRTIO_F_SR_IOV if > > > +the device does not have a PCI SR-IOV capability structure > > > +or is not a PCI device. A driver MUST negotiate > > > > Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why should the device offer > > the feature in the first place if it does not support the functionality? > > Probably shouldn't, but what if we want to reuse the bit > number for some non pci functionality on other transports? > This text will allow it. I'm not really a fan of reusing bits for different things. If we want this, we should specify a transport-specific feature bit range. I'd prefer simply noting that this is PCI-specific (as we do now), though. > > > > +VIRTIO_F_SR_IOV and complete the feature negotiation > > > +(including checking the FEATURES_OK \field{status} bit) > > > +before enabling virtual functions through the device's > > > +PCI SR-IOV capability structure. After once successfully > > > +negotiating VIRTIO_F_SR_IOV, the driver MAY enable virtual > > > +functions through the device's PCI SR-IOV capability > > > +structure even if the device or the system has been fully > > > +or partially reset, and even without re-negotiating > > > +VIRTIO_F_SR_IOV after the reset. > > > > So, what is the general lifetime of this feature supposed to be? As > > written here, the driver needs to negotiate the feature once and then > > may enable virtual functions at any time in all eternity. Is this > > intended to accommodate hardware implementations, where some kind of > > switch is flipped once and then the functionality is available? > > Also, as the device will need to negotiate the feature at least once, > > what is stopping it from negotiating it again in the future? Is this > > wording intended to allow the driver to simply use virtual functions on > > resume etc. prior to feature negotiation? > > Yes - it's to accomodate how guest OS-es treat SRIOV capability > on resume, restoring it before they start talking to the driver. > > Maybe we need a non conformance section explaining about SR-IOV. > Another thing to explain is that all VFs are assumed to be same as the > PF. Also I do not think we can support legacy or transitional VFs. Yes, I think so. > > > It might be helpful to add some explanatory text outside of the > > conformance statement so we don't stumble over this in the future. > > Exactly. But in fact same applies to other features we just > do not say this explicitly anywhere. For exactly things won't > work well if you reset device to recover from error > and suddenly it doesn't negotiate the feature. But "please renegotiate the same feature set" is different from "you can use this even before renegotiating", no? > > > So I suspect we want to add somewhere in the general section: > > > If device has successfully negotiated a set of features at least once > (by setting the FEATURES_OK \field{status} bit) then it SHOULD NOT > fail re-negotiation of the same set of features after a device > or system reset. Failure to do so would interfere with resume > from suspend and error recovery. > > would this address your comment? This is a good idea, and I already reviewed Tiwei's other patch :) We still need to note that reset doesn't clear this feature explicitly, though, as this is only SHOULD NOT. > > > > + > > > \devicenormative{\section}{Reserved Feature Bits}{Reserved Feature Bits} > > > > > > A device MUST offer VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1. A device MAY fail to operate further
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