Re: [PATCH v9 16/17] vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace

[Jason Wang]

在 2021/7/15 下午12:03, Yongji Xie 写道:
> > Which ioctl can be used for this?
> I mean we can introduce a new ioctl for that in the future.


Ok, I see.


> > > > I wonder if it's better to do something similar to ccw:
> > > >
> > > > 1) requires the userspace to update the status bit in the response
> > > > 2) update the dev->status to the status in the response if no timeout
> > > >
> > > > Then userspace could then set NEEDS_RESET if necessary.
> > > But NEEDS_RESET does not only happen in this case.
> > Yes, so you need an ioctl for userspace to update the device status
> > (NEEDS_RESET) probably.
> Yes, but I'd like to do that after the initial version is merged since
> NEEDS_RESET is not supported now.


Right.

Thanks


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