linux/drivers/virtio/vdpa/Kconfig

# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config VDPA
	tristate
	help
	  Enable this module to support vDPA device that uses a
	  datapath which complies with virtio specifications with
	  vendor specific control path.
vDPA: introduce vDPA bus vDPA device is a device that uses a datapath which complies with the virtio specifications with vendor specific control path. vDPA devices can be both physically located on the hardware or emulated by software. vDPA hardware devices are usually implemented through PCIE with the following types: - PF (Physical Function) - A single Physical Function - VF (Virtual Function) - Device that supports single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV). Its Virtual Function (VF) represents a virtualized instance of the device that can be assigned to different partitions - ADI (Assignable Device Interface) and its equivalents - With technologies such as Intel Scalable IOV, a virtual device (VDEV) composed by host OS utilizing one or more ADIs. Or its equivalent like SF (Sub function) from Mellanox. >From a driver's perspective, depends on how and where the DMA translation is done, vDPA devices are split into two types: - Platform specific DMA translation - From the driver's perspective, the device can be used on a platform where device access to data in memory is limited and/or translated. An example is a PCIE vDPA whose DMA request was tagged via a bus (e.g PCIE) specific way. DMA translation and protection are done at PCIE bus IOMMU level. - Device specific DMA translation - The device implements DMA isolation and protection through its own logic. An example is a vDPA device which uses on-chip IOMMU. To hide the differences and complexity of the above types for a vDPA device/IOMMU options and in order to present a generic virtio device to the upper layer, a device agnostic framework is required. This patch introduces a software vDPA bus which abstracts the common attributes of vDPA device, vDPA bus driver and the communication method (vdpa_config_ops) between the vDPA device abstraction and the vDPA bus driver. This allows multiple types of drivers to be used for vDPA device like the virtio_vdpa and vhost_vdpa driver to operate on the bus and allow vDPA device could be used by either kernel virtio driver or userspace vhost drivers as: virtio drivers vhost drivers \| \| [virtio bus] [vhost uAPI] \| \| virtio device vhost device virtio_vdpa drv vhost_vdpa drv \ / [vDPA bus] \| vDPA device hardware drv \| [hardware bus] \| vDPA hardware With the abstraction of vDPA bus and vDPA bus operations, the difference and complexity of the under layer hardware is hidden from upper layer. The vDPA bus drivers on top can use a unified vdpa_config_ops to control different types of vDPA device. Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200326140125.19794-6-jasowang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> 2020-03-26 22:01:21 +08:00			`# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only`
			`config VDPA`
			`tristate`
			`help`
			`Enable this module to support vDPA device that uses a`
			`datapath which complies with virtio specifications with`
			`vendor specific control path.`