On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:14:44 -0400 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 04:04:00PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:30:58PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > I generally wonder how are restarts of the backend handled > > > with this approach: closing the VFIO device tends to reset > > > the whole device. > > > > Hi Michael, > > > > I missed this comment previously.. This is a good point! > > In this RFC, before sending the VFIO group fd to QEMU, > > backend needs to close the VFIO device and unset the VFIO > > container first. Otherwise, QEMU won't be able to set the > > VFIO container for the VFIO group. > > > > Another option is to share the container fd instead of > > the group fd to QEMU. In this case, backend won't need > > to close any fd. But there is one problem that, it's > > hard to unmap the old mappings, especially when QEMU > > crashes. > > What are these old mappings and who creates them? > If you want to just reset everything the way it was > on open, surely it would be easy to add such a reset ioctl. > > > Do you have any suggestions? Thanks! > > > > Best regards, > > Tiwei Bie > > Donnu. Alex, any thoughts? Which approach would you prefer? The existing UNMAP_DMA ioctl for the vfio type1 IOMMU only requires that an unmap does not bisect previous mappings, ie. a previous mapping cannot be partially unmapped. Therefore you can already dump the entire IOVA space for a container with one UNMAP_DMA call, iova = 0, size = (u64)-1. Thanks, Alex
