From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
bhelgaas@google.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com,
linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, dan.daly@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
keith.busch@intel.com, netanel@amazon.com, mheyne@amazon.de,
liang-min.wang@intel.com, mark.d.rustad@intel.com,
dwmw2@infradead.org, hch@lst.de, dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Subject: Re: [pci PATCH v4 1/4] pci-iov: Add support for unmanaged SR-IOV
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 08:59:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180312075907.GA5342@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180311215909.16ed4bf1@t450s.home>
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 09:59:09PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> I still struggle to understand why we need this "unmanaged"
> complication and how a user of the sysfs API is expected to have any
> idea whether a PF is managed or unmanaged and why they should care.
> Can't we just have a pci_simple_sriov_configure() helper and ignore
> this unmanaged business? Thanks,
Just a pci_simple_sriov_configure is exactly what I envisioned originally.
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From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [pci PATCH v4 1/4] pci-iov: Add support for unmanaged SR-IOV
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 08:59:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180312075907.GA5342@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180311215909.16ed4bf1@t450s.home>
On Sun, Mar 11, 2018@09:59:09PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> I still struggle to understand why we need this "unmanaged"
> complication and how a user of the sysfs API is expected to have any
> idea whether a PF is managed or unmanaged and why they should care.
> Can't we just have a pci_simple_sriov_configure() helper and ignore
> this unmanaged business? Thanks,
Just a pci_simple_sriov_configure is exactly what I envisioned originally.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-12 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-08 19:00 [pci PATCH v4 0/4] Add support for unmanaged SR-IOV Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:00 ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:00 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:02 ` [pci PATCH v4 1/4] pci-iov: " Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:02 ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:02 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-12 3:59 ` Alex Williamson
2018-03-12 3:59 ` Alex Williamson
2018-03-12 7:59 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-03-12 7:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-03-12 16:01 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-12 16:01 ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-03-12 16:01 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-12 16:28 ` Alex Williamson
2018-03-12 16:28 ` Alex Williamson
2018-03-08 19:03 ` [pci PATCH v4 2/4] virtio_pci: Add support for unmanaged SR-IOV on virtio_pci devices Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:03 ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:03 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:03 ` [pci PATCH v4 3/4] ena: Migrate over to "unmanaged SR-IOV" support Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:03 ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:03 ` Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:04 ` [pci PATCH v4 4/4] nvme: " Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:04 ` [virtio-dev] " Alexander Duyck
2018-03-08 19:04 ` Alexander Duyck
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