Re: [PATCH v13 02/10] admin: introduce device group and related concepts

[Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>]

On 5/5/2023 11:40 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Each device group has a type. For now, define one initial group type:
>
> 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.
>
> Each device within a group has a unique identifier. This identifier
> is the group member identifier.
>
> 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.
>
> However, it's expected 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.
>
> Effort was made to minimize transport-specific text.
>
> There's a bit of duplication with 0x1 repeated twice and
> no special section for group type identifiers.
> It seems ok to defer adding these until we have more group
> types.
>
> Based-on-patch-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>