[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 00/15] Make VFIO support independent on PCI

[Santosh Shukla]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Jan Viktorin <viktorin at rehivetech.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> here follows several patchs extracting the general VFIO code out of the
> PCI + VFIO code base. Usually, it's just move and rename of functions.
> The most complicated ones are:
>
> * eal/linux: extract setup logic out of pci_vfio_map_resource
>
>   - separation of some setup code out of the pci_vfio_map_resource
>     (which is otherwise quite PCI-speicific)
>   - it is required by the following one
>
> * eal/linux: move global vfio_cfg to eal_vfio.c
>
>   - moving the vfio_cfg global variable out of the eal_pci_vfio together with
>     the functions working with this variable
>
> Some patchs make just temporary changes to avoid breakages throughout the
> patch set (dma mapping).
>
> I am not sure, how exactly is the mp_sync code intended to work. Should there
> be just a single socket connection (no matter how many bus-systems we support)?
> I assume it works this way so I've generalized the eal_pci_vfio_mp_sync.
>
> The vfio initialization is moved out of the rte_eal_pci_init into EAL.
>
> The code is now prepared for adding of other infrastructures such as the SoC
> that I've introduced in [1]. I've partially done this in my workspace.
>

I haven't started reading patch set, we'll do so. But by referring to
your initiative [1] which is non-pci SoC infra, How about binding
those non-pci soc via vfio-platform-way? As because vfio-for-platform
device use-case is such non-pci accelerators in SoC. is your current
refactoring effort aligned towards vfio-platform direction?