Re: [PATCH 8/9] vfio/pci: export nvlink2 support into vendor vfio_pci drivers

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 11/03/2021 12:34, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:20:33PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>
> > > It is supposed to match exactly the same match table as the pci_driver
> > > above. We *don't* want different behavior from what the standrd PCI
> > > driver matcher will do.
> >
> > This is not a standard PCI driver though
>
> It is now, that is what this patch makes it into. This is why it now
> has a struct pci_driver.
>
> > and the main vfio-pci won't have a
> > list to match ever.
>
> ?? vfio-pci uses driver_override or new_id to manage its match list


Exactly, no list to update.


> > IBM NPU PCI id is unlikely to change ever but NVIDIA keeps making
> > new devices which work in those P9 boxes, are you going to keep
> > adding those ids to nvlink2gpu_vfio_pci_table?
>
> Certainly, as needed. PCI list updates is normal for the kernel.
>
> > btw can the id list have only vendor ids and not have device ids?
>
> The PCI matcher is quite flexable, see the other patch from Max for
> the igd


ah cool, do this for NVIDIA GPUs then please, I just discovered another 
P9 system sold with NVIDIA T4s which is not in your list.


> But best practice is to be as narrow as possible as I hope this will
> eventually impact module autoloading and other details.

The amount of device specific knowledge is too little to tie it up to 
device ids, it is a generic PCI driver with quirks. We do not have a 
separate drivers for the hardware which requires quirks.

And how do you hope this should impact autoloading?



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Alexey