Re: [PATCH vfio 10/11] vfio/virtio: Expose admin commands over virtio device

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On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 11:59:26PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 02:43:37AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Btw, what is that intel thing everyone is talking about?  And why
> > > would the virtio core support vendor specific behavior like that?
> > 
> > It's not a thing it's Zhu Lingshan :) intel is just one of the vendors
> > that implemented vdpa support and so Zhu Lingshan from intel is working
> > on vdpa and has also proposed virtio spec extensions for migration.
> > intel's driver is called ifcvf.  vdpa composes all this stuff that is
> > added to vfio in userspace, so it's a different approach.
> 
> Well, so let's call it virtio live migration instead of intel.
> 
> And please work all together in the virtio committee that you have
> one way of communication between controlling and controlled functions.
> If one extension does it one way and the other a different way that's
> just creating a giant mess.

Absolutely, this is exactly what I keep suggesting. Thanks for
bringing this up, will help me drive the point home!

-- 
MST

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