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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Introduce virtio transport virtqueue
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On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 05:32:11PM +0800, Zhu Lingshan wrote:
> This series introduces virtio transport virtqueue as a new
> transport layer for virtio devices.
> 
> This series defines the concepts of virtio management device
> and virtio managed devices.
> 
> This series also defines a commands set over the transport virtqueue,
> including:
> The command to query available resources of the management device
> The commands to create / destroy the managed devices.
> The commands to config the managed devices.
> The commands to config virtqueues of the managed devices.


Is there interest in at least analysing how this interacts with the
recent admin queue proposals?


I see some similarity in what these are trying to address - for example,
feature bit provisioning - any analysis on how the two proposals
compare?


> Changes form V1:
> 1)Add a command to set per-vq asid(Jason)
> 2)Add a command to reset a virtqueue(Jason)
> 3)Add support for packed virtqueue state(Jason)
> 4)Allow nested managed devices(Jason)
> 5)Provides device feature bits in the provisioning(Jason)
> 6)Removed most of the error codes, only left OK and ERR(Jason)
> 7)“virtual devices” is renamed to “managed devices”, to be more general(Jason)
> 
> Zhu Lingshan (5):
>   Introduce virito transport virtqueue
>   Introduce feature bit VIRTIO_F_TRANSPT_VQ_MDEV
>   Introduce the commands set of the transport vq
>   Describe the process to present a managed device
>   Add transport vq number for virtio blk and net
> 
>  content.tex      | 784 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  introduction.tex |   3 +
>  2 files changed, 787 insertions(+)
> 
> -- 
> 2.35.3