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[159.2.73.22]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af79cd13be357-8d02806a37bsm712637385a.34.2026.03.30.17.03.34 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jgg by wakko with local (Exim 4.97) (envelope-from ) id 1w7MZy-00000005rSd-0n0u; Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:03:34 -0300 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:03:34 -0300 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: Alex Williamson Cc: Niklas Schnelle , Farhan Ali , Julian Ruess , wintera@linux.ibm.com, ts@linux.ibm.com, oberpar@linux.ibm.com, gbayer@linux.ibm.com, Yishai Hadas , Shameer Kolothum , Kevin Tian , mjrosato@linux.ibm.com, raspl@linux.ibm.com, hca@linux.ibm.com, agordeev@linux.ibm.com, gor@linux.ibm.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/3] vfio/ism: Implement vfio_pci driver for ISM devices Message-ID: <20260331000334.GI246076@ziepe.ca> References: <20260325-vfio_pci_ism-v8-0-ddc504cde914@linux.ibm.com> <20260325-vfio_pci_ism-v8-2-ddc504cde914@linux.ibm.com> <4096cb9d402b1aabc9667d450221cb0922e78d90.camel@linux.ibm.com> <3d6457b9-715a-4cbb-9c69-d8a7e7473c89@linux.ibm.com> <64e3158a441c79c55febead9aac956c31f034fb9.camel@linux.ibm.com> <20260330093646.03b0455f@shazbot.org> <20260330155651.GD246076@ziepe.ca> <20260330120945.023b2295@shazbot.org> <20260330181645.GE246076@ziepe.ca> <20260330123925.713edac4@shazbot.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260330123925.713edac4@shazbot.org> On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 12:39:25PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > Yes, that would be the ideal balance of enabling larger BARs while > retaining compatibility for existing devices. Sounds like we'll > continue down the variant driver path for this one-off device for > now. It remains fairly self contained so long as we don't add more > regions for vfio-pci-core to manage. > > This could be a good project if someone is looking though, especially > if it had a build-time config option to set the minimum region size so > we can exercise it before we hit 1TB BARs. Thanks, Well, it took claude an hour to vibe code a draft from a four sentence prompt.. I see many things that need changing/cleaning in here, but the patch strategy and general idea looks sound. I guess another day of effort would probably get things into something presentable. We are not so far away - maybe the variant driver path is not necessary? https://github.com/jgunthorpe/linux/commits/vfio_maple_tree/ Jason