Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Nov 2020 09:20:36 -0400 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 00/17] Add VFIO mediated device support and DEV-MSI support for the idxd driver |
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On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 04:53:59PM -0700, Raj, Ashok wrote:
> If we are doing this just to improve review effectiveness, Now we would need > some parent driver, and these sub-drivers registering seemed like a bit of > over-engineering when these sub-drivers actually are an extension of the > base driver and offer nothing more than extending sub-device partitions > of IDXD for guest drivers. These look and feel like IDXD, not another device > interface. In that sense if we move PF/VF mailboxes as > separate drivers i thought it feels a bit odd.
You need this split anyhow, putting VFIO calls into the main idxd module is not OK.
Plugging in a PCI device should not auto-load VFIO modules.
Jason
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