Re: RE: RE: [RFC] virtio-net: support access and control the member devices

[Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 11:15:34 +0000, Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2023 4:34 PM
>
> > > One command that gives device context information in TLV (type length
> > value) format.
> > > One of field of the device context is device config space.
> > > Device will return the information depending what device it is,
> > net/blk/console each returns different info.
> >
> >
> > Ok, I got.
> >
> > That is ok for me about the device context information.
> >
> > But how about the configuration of the mac? By admin queue?
> >
> In cloud env, we find them that increasingly users want to avoid such config from the compute side (PF).
> But some users may find it useful from the PF admin command as well.
> Dual thoughts.

In some of our cases this was required.
I think this should be done by cvq.
But getting the ctx of the device is high priority, we can start from here.

Thanks.