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[79.179.85.180]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y26sm17884235qtc.94.2020.01.20.04.17.29 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 20 Jan 2020 04:17:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 07:17:26 -0500 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jason Wang , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "tiwei.bie@intel.com" , "maxime.coquelin@redhat.com" , "cunming.liang@intel.com" , "zhihong.wang@intel.com" , "rob.miller@broadcom.com" , "xiao.w.wang@intel.com" , "haotian.wang@sifive.com" , "lingshan.zhu@intel.com" , "eperezma@redhat.com" , "lulu@redhat.com" , Parav Pandit , "kevin.tian@intel.com" , "stefanha@redhat.com" , "rdunlap@infradead.org" , "hch@infradead.org" , "aadam@redhat.com" , "jakub.kicinski@netronome.com" , Jiri Pirko , Shahaf Shuler , "hanand@xilinx.com" , "mhabets@solarflare.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] vDPA: introduce vDPA bus Message-ID: <20200120071406-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20200116124231.20253-1-jasowang@redhat.com> <20200116124231.20253-4-jasowang@redhat.com> <20200116152209.GH20978@mellanox.com> <03cfbcc2-fef0-c9d8-0b08-798b2a293b8c@redhat.com> <20200117135435.GU20978@mellanox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200117135435.GU20978@mellanox.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 01:54:42PM +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > 1) "virtio" vs "vhost", I implemented matching method for this in mdev > > series, but it looks unnecessary for vDPA device driver to know about this. > > Anyway we can use sysfs driver bind/unbind to switch drivers > > 2) virtio device id and vendor id. I'm not sure we need this consider the > > two drivers so far (virtio/vhost) are all bus drivers. > > As we seem to be contemplating some dynamic creation of vdpa devices I > think upon creation time it should be specified what mode they should > run it and then all driver binding and autoloading should happen > automatically. Telling the user to bind/unbind is a very poor > experience. Maybe but OTOH it's an existing interface. I think we can reasonably start with bind/unbind and then add ability to specify the mode later. bind/unbind come from core so they will be maintained anyway. -- MST