RE: [PATCH 0/3] vdpa: device feature provisioning

From: Parav Pandit
Date: Tue Sep 20 2022 - 15:17:34 EST


Hi Jason,

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> Subject: [PATCH 0/3] vdpa: device feature provisioning
>
> Hi All:
>
> Virtio features are neogiated between the device and the drivers. This allows
> the mediation layer like vDPA to hide some features from the driver to
> faciliate the cross vendor live migration:
>
> vDPA on the source supports feature set X vDPA on the destination supports
> feature set Y
>
> Management can simply provision the vDPA instance with features X&Y on
> both source and destination to let the vDPA can be migrate-able between
> the two vDPA devies with different features support.
>
> This series tries to allow the device features to be provisioned via netlink to
> achieve this.
Very useful series.
Can you please add vdpa example command with and without -jp option in each of the commit logs?

Thanks.