Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH requirements 0/7] virtio net new features requirements

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 6:03âAM Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> This document captures the virtio net device requirements for the upcoming
> release 1.4 that some of us are currently working on.
>
> I would like to capture if there are any other requirements linked to the
> features captured in this document to consider in the interface design.
>
> The objectives are:
> 1. to consider these requirements in introducing new features
> listed in the document and work towards the interface design followed
> by drafting the specification changes.
>
> 2. Define practical list of requirements that can be achieved in 1.4
> timeframe incrementally and also have the ability to implement them.
>
> This is not a specification document. It is a pre-work document
> that helps to understand the draft specification addressing these
> requirements.
>
> Please review.
>
> Parav Pandit (7):
>   net-features: Add requirements document for release 1.4
>   net-features: Add low latency transmit queue requirements
>   net-features: Add low latency receive queue requirements
>   net-features: Add notification coalescing requirements
>   net-features: Add n-tuple receive flow steering requirements
>   net-features: Add packet timestamp requirements
>   net-features: Add header data split requirements
>
>  net-workstream/features-1.4.md | 224 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I feel that some patches go into too many details of the proposed
solution which makes it more like RFC instead of a requirement.

It would be easier to start with to describe why a feature is needed
and why it can't work well in current spec.

Thanks

>  1 file changed, 224 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 net-workstream/features-1.4.md
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