From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from ws5-mx01.kavi.com (ws5-mx01.kavi.com [34.193.7.191]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41281C761AF for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2023 11:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis.ws5.connectedcommunity.org [10.110.1.242]) by ws5-mx01.kavi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9840B2AC7A for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2023 11:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [10.110.1.242]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86CEC986400 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2023 11:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host09.ws5.connectedcommunity.org (host09.ws5.connectedcommunity.org [10.110.1.97]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with QMQP id 754879863EF; Tue, 4 Apr 2023 11:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Mailing-List: contact virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org; run by ezmlm List-ID: Sender: Precedence: bulk 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 5F7719863ED for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2023 11:38:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kavi.com X-MC-Unique: dStyea-MN1ubmLasenPV1w-1 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 07:38:16 -0400 From: Stefan Hajnoczi To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, jasowang@redhat.com, cohuck@redhat.com, sgarzare@redhat.com, nrupal.jani@intel.com, Piotr.Uminski@intel.com, hang.yuan@intel.com, virtio@lists.oasis-open.org, Jiri Pirko , Zhu Lingshan , pasic@linux.ibm.com, Shahaf Shuler , Parav Pandit , Max Gurtovoy Message-ID: <20230404113816.GA428487@fedora> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ObMZ9YbhLenZBb8P" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.10 Subject: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v11 02/10] admin: introduce device group and related concepts --ObMZ9YbhLenZBb8P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 11:03:09AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Each device group has a type. For now, define one initial group type: >=20 > SR-IOV type - PCI SR-IOV virtual functions (VFs) of a given > PCI SR-IOV physical function (PF). This group may contain zero or more > virtio devices according to NumVFs configured. >=20 > Each device within a group has a unique identifier. This identifier > is the group member identifier. >=20 > Note: one can argue both ways whether the new device group handling > functionality (this and following patches) is closer > to a new device type or a new transport type. >=20 > However, I expect that we will add more features in the near future. To > facilitate this as much as possible of the text is located in the new > admin chapter. >=20 > I did my best to minimize transport-specific text. >=20 > There's a bit of duplication with 0x1 repeated twice and > no special section for group type identifiers. > I think it's ok to defer adding these until we have more group > types. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin > --- > changes in v11: > dropped Max's S.O.B. > dropped an unmatched ) as reported by Parav > document that member id is 1 to numvfs > document that vf enable must be set (will also be reflected in > the conformance section) > document that we deferred generalizing text as requested by Parav - > I think we can do it later > minor wording fixes to address comments by David > add concepts of owner and member driver. unused currently > but will come in handy later, as suggested by Stefan > --- > admin.tex | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > content.tex | 2 ++ > 2 files changed, 65 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 admin.tex Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi --ObMZ9YbhLenZBb8P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEhpWov9P5fNqsNXdanKSrs4Grc8gFAmQsDCgACgkQnKSrs4Gr c8g4Ygf/bvHqkS7mavN/XcYt93pnkjWPQHozb9AfrNob7Ya24RSO/zCbVZcLqJTW D1kIT6YfkY1U2E7SNKY8kIX+VqwGsDHb6/lSpas8LoiY2K13v+tOFBKFAn+5rkQG LAvRahlf0PKPyFRH1mJUwk/rZkCBzJD5ZlHA8kMYM9sn4mWOlhb1t3JLTF/RHXV3 Dv0ELZ9Na53dVc29+ArOs6pD/CQuNqy8UPmU5CbjZ7lzOA9m0jYMTt85IIEIRFIa 6mHa1ewnqddA6eP6MPbrWrJIw8l1vLfDm+ac+7JTDqMfuMgBS558ht1Q1Az0VO4t s0OHA5P/mUgpJR8Y6iGEirUOKZ9V6w== =7QkZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ObMZ9YbhLenZBb8P--