[PATCH v5 0/7] Introduce device group and device management

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Date
2022-07-24T21:10:00+00:00
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[PATCH v5 0/7] Introduce device group and device management
I snippet rest of mail - wasn't sure whether you were waiting for an
answer.

On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 08:45:26PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
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> Again I don't know what to do with this. I feel if it's put up for vote in the current
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> form it's likely to fail. I propose cutting out as much as possible as a first step, so
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> we can make progress. Specifically the MSI-X commands are clearly PF specific
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> so there's no concern about VF memory use at all.  We can worry about other
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> types of command down the road when it becomes relevant.
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> Since feature bits proposes are limited to PF, I agree that current short cut is fine to place in 64-127 feature bits.
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> When/if similar functionality is needed at scale for the VF or SIOV devices, placing them in 64-127 bits area weight way less for sake of "people familiarity to feature bits".
> Do you agree?

I think we can all agree that extensions for scalable IOV will need more
work if that is what you are saying.

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