RE: [RFC PATCH 0/7] vfio/pci: SR-IOV support

From: Liu, Yi L
Date: Wed Feb 05 2020 - 02:58:04 EST


> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 7:18 AM
> To: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] vfio/pci: SR-IOV support
>
>
> Promised example QEMU test case...
>
> commit 3557c63bcb286c71f3f7242cad632edd9e297d26
> Author: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue Feb 4 13:47:41 2020 -0700
>
> vfio-pci: QEMU support for vfio-pci VF tokens
>
> Example support for using a vf_token to gain access to a device as
> well as using the VFIO_DEVICE_FEATURE interface to set the VF token.
> Note that the kernel will disregard the additional option where it's
> not required, such as opening the PF with no VF users, so we can
> always provide it.
>
> NB. It's unclear whether there's value to this QEMU support without
> further exposure of SR-IOV within a VM. This is meant mostly as a
> test case where the real initial users will likely be DPDK drivers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Just curious how UUID is used across the test. Should the QEMU
which opens VFs add the vfio_token=UUID or the QEMU which
opens PF add the vfio_token=UUID? or both should add vfio_token=UUID.

Regards,
Yi Liu