Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v1 1/1] vGPU core driver : to provide common interface for vGPU.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Di, 2016-02-02 at 00:13 -0800, Neo Jia wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:00:43AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >   Hi,
> > 
> > > And for UUID, I remember Alex had a concern on using it in kernel. 
> > > Honestly speaking I don't have a good idea here. In Xen side there is a 
> > > VM ID
> > > which can be easily used as the index. But for KVM, what would be the best
> > > identifier to associate with a VM?
> > 
> > The vgpu code doesn't need to associate the vgpu device with a vm in the
> > first place.  You get all guest address space information from qemu, via
> > vfio iommu interface.
> > 
> > When qemu does't use kvm (tcg mode), things should still work fine.
> > Using vfio-based vgpu devices with non-qemu apps (some kind of test
> > suite for example) should work fine too.
> 
> Hi Gerd and Kevin,
> 
> I thought Alex had agreed with the UUID as long as it is not tied with VM,
> probably it is just his comment gets lost in our previous long email thread.

As long as it isn't tied to a VM it is fine indeed.  We'll need names
for the devices, and using a uuid certainly is one option.  Could also
be a simple "vgpu${index}".  A more descriptive name such as
"nvidia-grid-${index}" or "igd-skl-${index}".  Or just a free-form
string where the driver can fill whatever it wants (including a uuid).

cheers,
  Gerd