Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH V3 RESEND 1/4] Introduce virito transport virtqueue

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

On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 05:28:33PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 5:12 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 04:36:43PM +0800, Zhu, Lingshan wrote:
> > > > > +
> > > > > +A device that offers feature bit VIRTIO_F_TRANSPT_VQ and a transport virtqueue is a management device.
> > > > > +It processes the commands through the transport virtqueue commands.
> > > > I think we need to be verbose here, e.g what did those transport
> > > > virtqueue commands do? What's the relationship between management
> > > > device and managed device?
> > > I will add an overview of the transport virtqueue commands here, and a
> > > description of the relationship in the "managed device" section.
> >
> > Transport is fine but management of devices is clearly something
> > nvidia's patches do. So I think it's best to reuse the concept of device
> > groups for this, from Max's patchset. Let's not replicate that work at
> > least. I promised Max to help a bit with wording so I'll soon send a
> > revision of his patchset, the generic part about device group
> > from which you should be able to reuse.
> 
> I wonder if "parent/child" makes any more sense than "management/managed" here?
> 
> Thanks

I suggest reusing Max's proposal.
There we have a group, a group type, we have a group member.
All that is left is a name for a device that owns the vq
through which the commands are sent (PF for the SRIOV group).
Group parent might be ok, sure. Group owner as another option?


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