Virtualization - Jun 2021 - [PATCH linux-next v3 2/6] vdpa: Introduce query of device config layout

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 01:03:20PM +0800, Jason Wang
wrote:
> So I think we need solve them all, but netlink is probably the wrong layer,
> we need to solve them at virtio level and let netlink a transport for them
> virtio uAPI/ABI.
I'm not sure I follow. virtio defines VF to driver communication.
This is PF to hypervisor. virtio simply does not cover it ATM.

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? 2021/6/29 ??6:39, Michael S. Tsirkin ??:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 01:03:20PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> So I think we need solve them all, but netlink is probably the wrong
layer,
>> we need to solve them at virtio level and let netlink a transport for
them
>> virtio uAPI/ABI.
> I'm not sure I follow. virtio defines VF to driver communication.
> This is PF to hypervisor. virtio simply does not cover it ATM.

Note that this is not PF to hypervisor but the uAPI from userspace (vDPA 
tool) to vDPA core.

We had two choices.

1) tweak virtio uAPIs
2) invent virtio specific uAPI in netlink

1) seems better.

Thanks

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