[RFC PATCH 0/2] Mdev: support mutiple kinds of devices

Tian, Kevin kevin.tian at intel.com
Wed Sep 18 01:54:43 UTC 2019


> From: Alex Williamson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 1:31 AM
> 
> [cc +Parav]
> 
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:40:10 +0800
> Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all:
> >
> > During the development of virtio-mdev[1]. I find that mdev needs to be
> > extended to support devices other than vfio mdev device. So this
> > series tries to extend the mdev to be able to differ from different
> > devices by:
> >
> > - device id and matching for mdev bus
> > - device speicfic callbacks and move vfio callbacks there
> >
> > Sent for early reivew, compile test only!
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/9/10/135
> 
> I expect Parav must have something similar in the works for their
> in-kernel networking mdev support.  Link to discussion so far:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20190912094012.29653-1-
> jasowang at redhat.com/T/#t
> 

It links to the current thread. Is it intended or do you want
people to look at another thread driven by Parav? :-)

Thanks
Kevin



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