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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add device reset timeout field
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 08:51:34AM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote: > > > > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2021 9:30 PM > > > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 03:44:14PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote: > > > > > This is unlikely to work the reset is completed. Because a real > > > > > device > > > > implementing this would prefer to do this in fw for 1000 virtio > > > > devices sitting on the physical card. > > > > > And it is very much driven by such implementation at device devel. > > > > > So it cannot update the counter value if reset is not completed for the > > device. > > > > > > > > > > I think read only device reset timeout is most elegant option > > > > > during device > > > > initialization phase that eliminates infinite loop of today. > > > > > > > > Why can't a driver just go ahead and do a timeout regardless? > > > o.k. lets consider this thought exercise. What is the timeout value that driver > > will choose if device doesn't specify one? > > > I explained in previous thread and you acked that actual fw based device > > may take longer to initialize than pure sw implementation backend. > > > In second example a pre-boot device can take even longer initialization time. > > > Sriov VF device may initialize lot faster. > > > Instead of driver having such transport, and device specific checks, (or some > > very short or very long timeout), we propose, that let device mention such > > timeout value. > > > > Parav I think you are conflating reset with initialization time. > > initialization is just for host boot which takes seconds anyway - but no, > > minutes is not reasonable their, either. > > reset affects guest boot. This needs to complete in milliseconds. > > > I cannot promise, but with newer generation devices usually functionality improves. > Enforcing in milliseconds doesn't look practical for type of devices. > Some of the block devices may need to establish TCP connections in the backend. > It is more useful to wait for few more seconds to initialize device after power on the system, instead of giving up booting the server completely. > For example, a nvme block device starts with a minimum timeout of 500msec. > > Yes, I agree to your point that a device given to a guest VM will likely have very short reset time that should complete in milliseconds. > > > This conflation is IMHO one of the problems with this proposal. > > Device initialization consist of device reset from the spec section 3.1.1. It does. But maybe we need to create a way for driver to distinguish between the two. When under reset, use a driver supplied timeout. When powering up, use a longer device supplied one. migration is not a problem for baremetal so all's good from that point of view. And power up seems irrelevant for ccw/mmio since these are always within VMs. So it's a pci only thing. -- MST
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