From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 45E039862A6 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2022 15:09:53 +0000 (UTC) From: Cornelia Huck In-Reply-To: References: <20220203075716.11684-1-mgurtovoy@nvidia.com> <20220203075716.11684-2-mgurtovoy@nvidia.com> <87tudgw0yi.fsf@redhat.com> <20220207052554-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <87a6f2x5c7.fsf@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 16:08:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87y22mvhmu.fsf@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] Add virtio Admin virtqueue Content-Type: text/plain To: Max Gurtovoy , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, jasowang@redhat.com, parav@nvidia.com, shahafs@nvidia.com, oren@nvidia.com, stefanha@redhat.com List-ID: On Mon, Feb 07 2022, Max Gurtovoy wrote: > On 2/7/2022 1:51 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 07 2022, "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 12:14:33PM +0200, Max Gurtovoy wrote: >>>> On 2/3/2022 3:09 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Feb 03 2022, Max Gurtovoy wrote: >>>>>> +commands to manipulate various features of the device and/or to manipulate >>>>>> +various features, if possible, of another device within the same group (e.g. PCI VFs >>>>> Maybe add >>>>> >>>>> "Which devices are actually considered a group is transport specific." >>>>> >>>>> ? >>>> Not sure we want to restrict ourselves for that. >>> do restrict this please, if we want to extend the scope we can >>> always do that down the road. >> I'm also not sure how grouping can _not_ be transport specific... the >> PF/VF example is obviously a pci thing; for ccw, in a non-virtio >> context, there's sometimes the concept of some subchannels/devices being >> grouped together with no clear hierarchy, and for mmio, I don't really >> have an idea how "grouping" might work there. > > Yes today it's transport specific. > > But if one day there will be a definition for virtio fabric (over > TCP/RDMA) it might not be true. I don't think that is contadictory; we can simply extend the meaning of what "grouping" means when needed. This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC. In order to verify user consent to the Feedback License terms and to minimize spam in the list archive, subscription is required before posting. Subscribe: virtio-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org Unsubscribe: virtio-comment-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org List help: virtio-comment-help@lists.oasis-open.org List archive: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-comment/ Feedback License: https://www.oasis-open.org/who/ipr/feedback_license.pdf List Guidelines: https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/mailing-lists Committee: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/virtio/ Join OASIS: https://www.oasis-open.org/join/