Re: [PATCH 5/5] vdpasim: vDPA device simulator

Jason Wang
2020-02-04T04:19:55Z

On 2020/1/17 下午10:10, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>>> Netlink based lifecycle management could be implemented for vDPA
>>>> simulator as well.
>>> This is just begging for a netlink based approach.
>>>
>>> Certainly netlink driven removal should be an agreeable standard for
>>> all devices, I think.
>> Well, I think Parav had some proposals during the discussion of mdev
>> approach. But I'm not sure if he had any RFC codes for me to integrate it
>> into vdpasim.
>>
>> Or do you want me to propose the netlink API? If yes, would you prefer to a
>> new virtio dedicated one or be a subset of devlink?
> Well, lets see what feed back Parav has
>
> Jason

Hi Parav:

Do you have any update on this? If it still require sometime, I will
post V2 that sticks to sysfs based API.

Thanks