[virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH V2] virtio-net: introduce admin control virtqueue

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 11:30:14AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > 
> > Does the management device get to choose if it wants to trust a virtual
> > device, i.e. can it fail enabling the trust?
> 
> 
> Yes, the idea is to let management device to choose which virtual device is
> trust. For the possible failure, I think we should allow the device to fail
> the enabling, e.g when the device is lacking resources for virtual devices
> (e.g mac address tables etc).
> 
> Thanks

Wrt SRIOV at least, the standard model is to have the PF control VFs.
I am not saying trusting some VF instead has no uses but
unless someone requested it I'd stick to the standard model
initially.

-- 
MST


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