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

[Jason Wang]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 3:17 AM Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Jason,
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> > From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:51 AM
> > To: mst@xxxxxxxxxx; jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Eli Cohen <elic@xxxxxxxxxx>; si-wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx; Parav Pandit
> > <parav@xxxxxxxxxx>; wuzongyong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
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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?

Yes, I will do it in V2.

Thanks

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> Thanks.
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