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From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH 1/3] shared memory: Define shared memory regions
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 10:33:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190115103337.2f15e4e0.cohuck@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190111185717.2ebb286c@oc2783563651>

On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:57:17 +0100
Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:07:23 +0000
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Do we want to change the device initialization (3.1) subsection? I'm not
> > > sure if this shared  memory region discovery is something that's
> > > supposed to be a part of the initialization. At the moment, I would guess
> > > is the device not supposed to be able to provide new regions at any time
> > > (as I don't see how the device is supposed to tell the driver: hey
> > > please re-do discovery).     
> > 
> > Yes, it's part of initialisation; although since the enumeration is
> > specific to the transport and the use is specific to the device, I'm not
> > sure what goes in a common initialization section.  
> 
> I think it does go in a common initialization. Virtqueues are also
> discovered in a transport specific way, and same goes for reading/writing config.
> 
> So I would add somethng to 
> "7. Perform device-specific setup, including discovery of virtqueues for
> the device, optional per-bus setup, reading and possibly writing the
> device’s virtio configuration space, and population of virtqueues." in
> subsection 3.1.1.

Agreed, it probably makes sense to add shared memory region discovery
as an extra item to this list of things to be setup.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-15  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-11 11:41 [virtio-comment] [PATCH 0/3] Large shared memory regions Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-01-11 11:41 ` [virtio-comment] [PATCH 1/3] shared memory: Define " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-01-11 12:15   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-11 12:26     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-01-15 10:10       ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-15 11:23         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-01-16 10:56           ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-16 20:06             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-11 21:52               ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-13 18:37                 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-14 10:58                   ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-14 16:37                     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-14 17:43                       ` Frank Yang
2019-02-15 11:07                         ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 11:19                           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 12:31                             ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-18 15:28                             ` Halil Pasic
2019-02-15 11:26                           ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 12:28                             ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 12:33                               ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 12:37                                 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-02-15 12:59                                   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 13:50                                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 13:56                                     ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 14:02                                       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 14:13                                         ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 15:14                                           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-15 21:42                                             ` Halil Pasic
2019-02-15 22:08                                             ` David Hildenbrand
2019-02-15 12:51                     ` Halil Pasic
2019-02-15 13:33                       ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-23 15:12         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-11 15:29     ` Halil Pasic
2019-01-11 16:07       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-01-11 17:57         ` Halil Pasic
2019-01-15  9:33           ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2019-02-13  2:25   ` [virtio-comment] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-02-13 10:44     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-02-14  3:43       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-01-11 11:41 ` [virtio-comment] [PATCH 2/3] shared memory: Define PCI capability Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-02-13  2:30   ` [virtio-comment] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-01-11 11:42 ` [virtio-comment] [PATCH 3/3] shared memory: Define mmio registers Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2019-02-13  2:33   ` [virtio-comment] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-02-13 16:52     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert

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