Change log: since v8: addressed comments by Cornelia - as we agreed on list since v7: make high level error codes match linux, with virtio specific codes in a separate field renamed _ACCEPT to _USE since that's what it does clarified forward compatibility and non pci transports support multiple admin vqs conformance statements lots of changes all over the place to I changed author from Max to myself. Don't need to take credit but also don't want to blame Max for my mistakes. since v6: - removed some extentions intended for future use. We'll do them when we get there. - brought back command list query from v5 in a simplified form - it's here to address the case where a single parent can address multiple groups, such as PF addressing transport vq and sriov vfs. - attempt to make terminology more formal. In particular a term for whoever controls the group. I am still going back and forth between "parent" and "owner" - owner might be better after all since it will work if we ever have a self group. For now it's parent. TODO (maybe?) - probably ok to defer until this part is upstream: Add "all members" member id. Add commands for MSI, feature discovery. Add commands for transport vq.
My intent is to try and support both SR-IOV and SIOV usecases with the same structure and maybe even the same VQ. For example, it might make sense to split creating/destroying SIOV devices from the transport passing data from the guest - the driver would then not negotiate VIRTIO_F_SR_IOV (which then means auto-provisioning). This is out of RFC, since we have two commands which are useful to discover supported group types (ATM can be none or SR-IOV).
Michael S. Tsirkin (10):
virtio: document forward compatibility guarantees
admin: introduce device group and related concepts
admin: introduce group administration commands
admin: introduce virtio admin virtqueues
pci: add admin vq registers to virtio over pci
mmio: document ADMIN_VQ as reserved
ccw: document ADMIN_VQ as reserved
admin: command list discovery
admin: conformance clauses
ccw: document more reserved features
admin.tex
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