another question on vDPA vs vendor specific driver portion... Are the subsystem vendor & device IDs to be different from the primary (Red Hat) versions as there has to be a way for a vendor specific driver to "see" its device.
Rob Miller [email protected] (919)721-3339 On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:53 AM Eugenio Perez Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > So, from the previous mails, it seems that monitoring the used ring > (and the packed descriptors) is a good first step in that direction, > as DPDK did. This way, the device does not need to worry about the > dirty page tracking using a bitmap and the PCI writes limitation, and > we can evaluate later the proposed alternatives: > * Alternate used descriptors in packed. > * vDPA interface for vDPA devices in a convenient format. > > Any thoughts? Do you think that we should start with another way? > > Thanks! > >
