From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-4652-cohuck=redhat.com@lists.oasis-open.org 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 764B6985B5F for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 16:10:16 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 18:10:11 +0200 From: Cornelia Huck Message-ID: <20180709181011.3edc4193.cohuck@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20180709131419.GB6271@rkaganb.sw.ru> References: <20180629221907.3662-1-venu.busireddy@oracle.com> <20180702161404.GA2339@rkaganb.sw.ru> <449f1449-ddf6-cd95-976c-14d04d8d503a@oracle.com> <20180703095825.GC30904@rkaganb.sw.ru> <20180703142817.GA3088@vbusired-vm> <20180703165200.180c93bb.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180704141523.377cb66d.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180706155406.0587733c.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180709131419.GB6271@rkaganb.sw.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] Use of unique identifier for pairing virtio and passthrough devices... To: Roman Kagan Cc: Siwei Liu , Venu Busireddy , si-wei liu , "Michael S . Tsirkin" , Marcel Apfelbaum , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-ID: On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 16:14:19 +0300 Roman Kagan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 03:54:06PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > If we want to extend that to other device types, we can add the field > > in their config space; but I'd rather prefer a more generic "host > > relays config metainformation" approach. > > The problem with this approach is that it's too generic and poorly > scoped. As a result I guess it's likely to take ages to converge. I'd certainly not want to wait for it for this particular issue; however, I think there is value in having this (seeing that at least Open Stack and s390x DPM already make use of such a mechanism.) But we can still revisit this later on. (I'm not too sold on branching out to other device types in general, but there seems to be demand for it.) > > See for instance the discussion on including vm config metadata in qcow2 > images: I think it's similar in scope (or the absense thereof). > > Roman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org