On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 7:25 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 01:22:19AM +0000, Longpeng (Mike, Cloud 
> Infrastructure Service Product Dept.) wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefa...@redhat.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 5:49 PM
> > > To: Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
> > > <longpe...@huawei.com>
> > > Cc: m...@redhat.com; jasow...@redhat.com; sgarz...@redhat.com;
> > > coh...@redhat.com; pbonz...@redhat.com; Gonglei (Arei)
> > > <arei.gong...@huawei.com>; Yechuan <yech...@huawei.com>; Huangzhichao
> > > <huangzhic...@huawei.com>; qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> > > Subject: Re: [RFC 03/10] vdpa: add the infrastructure of vdpa-dev
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 08:58:53AM +0800, Longpeng(Mike) wrote:
> > > > +static const VirtioPCIDeviceTypeInfo vhost_vdpa_device_pci_info = {
> > > > +    .base_name               = TYPE_VHOST_VDPA_DEVICE_PCI,
> > > > +    .generic_name            = "vhost-vdpa-device-pci",
> > > > +    .transitional_name       = "vhost-vdpa-device-pci-transitional",
> > > > +    .non_transitional_name   = 
> > > > "vhost-vdpa-device-pci-non-transitional",
> > >
> > > Does vDPA support Transitional VIRTIO devices?
> > >
> > > I expected this device to support Modern devices only.
> > >
> >
> > There's already a 0.95 vdpa driver (Alibaba ENI) in the kernel source and
> > supporting 0.95 devices is necessary for some older GuestOS.
> >
> > I'm OK if other guys also approve of supporting 1.0+ devices only :)
>
> If vDPA supports Transitional VIRTIO devices then it's fine to keep this
> code unchanged in this patch series.

Right, and I think that's the plan.

Thanks

>
> Stefan


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