Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH v10 00/10] Introduce device group and device management

[Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>]

Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 11:48:32PM CET, mst@redhat.com wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 05:40:04PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 02:04:48PM CET, mst@redhat.com wrote:
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>> >  admin: introduce device group and related concepts
>> >  admin: introduce group administration commands
>> >  admin: introduce virtio admin virtqueues
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>> The ordering seems a bit odd to me. I think that at the beginning, the
>> admin virtqueue should be introduced with generic concepts (including
>> the generic command structure), only after that the section introducing
>> device group stuff and related commands.
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>That's intentional.
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>Jason is working on additional ways to pass commands to
>devices, using memory mapped registers.
>
>Thus admin commands stand by themselves, and the queue is
>just a way to issue them.

Okay, in that case, woudnlt it make sense if the generic CMD text
(including the generic command structure) would go first, then the
"group" related cmds?


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