From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: mst@redhat.com, elic@nvidia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vdpa: mandate 1.0 device
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 09:57:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210604075756.z67ycpyonmhqs37k@steredhat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210604050251.57834-1-jasowang@redhat.com>
On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 01:02:51PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>This patch mandates 1.0 for vDPA devices. The plan is never to support
>transitional devices for vDPA devices in the future.
>
>The reasons are:
>
>- To have the semantic of normative statement in the virtio spec and
> eliminate the burden of transitional device for both vDPA bus and
> vDPA parent
>- Eliminate the efforts for dealing with endian conversion in the
> management tool
>- Mandate vDPA vendor to ship modern device instead of transitional
> device which is easily broken and unsafe
>- Transitional device never work since the first day of vDPA
>
>Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>---
> include/linux/vdpa.h | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
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2021-06-04 5:02 Jason Wang
2021-06-04 7:57 ` Stefano Garzarella [this message]
2021-06-06 6:31 ` Eli Cohen
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