[RFC PATCH 1/2] hw/nvme: add mi device

[Padmakar Kalghatgi]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 06:30:28AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 06:30:28AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 12:03:27PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> > Why did you decide to implement -device nvme-mi as a device on
>> > TYPE_NVME_BUS? If the NVMe spec somehow requires this then I'm surprised
>> > that there's no NVMe bus interface (callbacks). It seems like this could
>> > just as easily be a property of an NVMe controller -device
>> > nvme,mi=on|off or -device nvme-subsys,mi=on|off? I'm probably just not
>> > familiar enough with MI and NVMe architecture...
>>
>> I'm too far away from qemu these days to understand what TYPE_NVME_BUS
>> is.  Bt NVMe-MI has tree possible transports:
>>
>>  1) out of band through smbus.  This seems something that could be
>>     trivially modelled in qemu
>>  2) out of band over MCTP / PCIe VDM.
>>  3) in band using NVMe admin commands that pass through MI commands
>
>Thanks for explaining!
>
>Common NVMe-MI code can be shared by -device nvme-mi-smbus, in-band NVMe
>MI commands (part of -device nvme), a vsock transport, etc. This patch
>has nvme_mi_admin_command() as the entry point to common MI code, so not
>much needs to be done to achieve this.
>
>My question about why -device nvme-mi was because this "device" doesn't
>implement any bus interface (callbacks). The bus effectively just serves
>as an owner of this device. The guest does not access the device via the
>bus. So I'm not sure a -device is appropriate, it's an usual device.
>
>If the device is kept, please name it -device nvme-mi-vsock so it's
>clear this is the NVMe-MI vsock transport. I think the device could be
>dropped and instead an -device nvme,mi-vsock=on|off property could be
>added to enable the MI vsock transport on a specific NVMe controller.
>This raises the question of whether the port number should be
>configurable so multiple vsock Management Endpoints can coexist.
>
>I don't have time to explore the architectural model, but here's the
>link in case anyone wants to think through all the options for NVMe MI
>Management Endpoints and how QEMU should model them:
>"1.4 NVM Subsystem Architectural Model"
>https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=8ee99db1-ee0b00ec-8ee816fe-000babd9f1ba-c174da71c1d11e79&q=1&e=b7b9709a-33ac-4d98-a6c0-ff53377a3278&u=https%3A%2F%2Fnvmexpress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FNVM-Express-Management-Interface-1.2-2021.06.02-Ratified.pdf
>
>Stefan
Thanks Stefan for the suggestion.