From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-7621-cohuck=redhat.com@lists.oasis-open.org Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [10.110.1.242]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35ACF985D5D for ; Wed, 29 Jul 2020 13:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 09:52:55 -0400 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20200729094956-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20200518203721.7625-1-ndragazis@arrikto.com> <20200518203721.7625-2-ndragazis@arrikto.com> <87v9inv26c.fsf@linaro.org> <20200717092635.GB128195@stefanha-x1.localdomain> <20200724103627-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20200727122521.GA386429@stefanha-x1.localdomain> <21ded3b5-1337-960b-b8ee-bdf6dea4eb93@arrikto.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <21ded3b5-1337-960b-b8ee-bdf6dea4eb93@arrikto.com> Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH v5 01/10] vhost-user: add vhost-user device type Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline To: Nikos Dragazis Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , Alex =?iso-8859-1?Q?Benn=E9e?= , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:59:36PM +0300, Nikos Dragazis wrote: > On 27/7/20 3:25 =CE=BC.=CE=BC., Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >=20 > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 08:31:48PM +0300, Nikos Dragazis wrote: > > > On 24/7/20 5:41 =CE=BC.=CE=BC., Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 10:26:35AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > > > So how about XXX notifications for both of these things? > > > > Where XXX explains what is the reason for triggering each > > > > type of notification. > > > I guess Stefan introduced the term "doorbell" because it is a widely > > > used term (e.g., in NVMe devices) and I think it is a pretty good > > > term. However, I agree that the vague term "notification" may cause > > > confusion. > > >=20 > > > Replacing "doorbells" and "notifications" with "XXX notifications" > > > sounds good. I can't think of some good terms for XXX right now. > > > Feel free to propose. > > Device-specific notifications and device-specific doorbells? Um. What does this mean exactly? Really I am guessing you are notifying about some kind of event. So let's call it according to this event then. > >=20 > > I think these concepts should be part of the core VIRTIO device model s= o > > that other devices can also define device-specific > > notifications/doorbells in the future. > >=20 > > Stefan >=20 > I think that Michael is OK with standardizing these resources, but he is > not really happy with the term "doorbell". >=20 > From the one hand, using the term "XXX notification" would be more > consistent with the virtio spec, since virtio already uses the term > "notification" for driver-to-device signaling regarding the virtqueues. >=20 > On the other hand, I can't find something for XXX that would sound > better than "doorbell". >=20 > But let's see what Michael has to say. >=20 > Nikos "doorbells" is generally like available buffer notifications that we have in virtio. I am still not sure what does it mean in this context. --=20 MST --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org