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Tsirkin" To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jason Wang , Yishai Hadas , alex.williamson@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, parav@nvidia.com, feliu@nvidia.com, jiri@nvidia.com, kevin.tian@intel.com, joao.m.martins@oracle.com, leonro@nvidia.com, maorg@nvidia.com Subject: Re: [PATCH vfio 11/11] vfio/virtio: Introduce a vfio driver over virtio devices Message-ID: <20230926014005-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20230921124331-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20230921183926.GV13733@nvidia.com> <20230921150448-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20230921194946.GX13733@nvidia.com> <20230922121132.GK13733@nvidia.com> <20230925122607.GW13733@nvidia.com> <20230925143708-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20230926004059.GM13733@nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20230926004059.GM13733@nvidia.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 09:40:59PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 03:44:11PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > VDPA is very different from this. You might call them both mediation, > > > sure, but then you need another word to describe the additional > > > changes VPDA is doing. > > > > Sorry about hijacking the thread a little bit, but could you > > call out some of the changes that are the most problematic > > for you? > > I don't really know these details. Maybe, you then should desist from saying things like "It entirely fails to achieve the most important thing it needs to do!" You are not making any new friends with saying this about a piece of software without knowing the details. -- MST