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

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

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:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> >  admin: introduce device group and related concepts
> >  admin: introduce group administration commands
> >  admin: introduce virtio admin virtqueues
> 
> 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.

That's intentional.

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.



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