On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:30:38AM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 3:57 PM
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 08:23:57AM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 1:36 PM
> > >
> > > [..]
> > > > > > > > You can map it to a queue, yes. But something static and
> > > > > > > > read only such as list of commands maps well to config
> > > > > > > > space. And it's not controlling one device from another, so
> > > > > > > > does not really seem to belong in
> > > > > > the admin queue.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Aq serves the writing device config too in patch-5 in this 
> > > > > > > patchset.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > List of available admin commands does not need to be written.
> > > > > >
> > > > > It is not written into the aq commands.
> > > > > It is part of the feature bit VIRTIO_F_ADMIN_PCI_VIRT_MANAGER
> > > > > indicating
> > > > a given functionality supported or not in patch-5.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Btw I don't see what does "VIRT_MANAGER" mean here. "manager" is
> > > > just a generic thing that means nothing, and VIRT just repeats VIRTIO.
> > > >
> > > VIRT doesn't repeat VIRTIO.
> > 
> > It's literally a substring ;)
> > 
> > > VIRT indicates PCI virtual functions.
> > 
> > I'd use something like "SRIOV" then.
> Yeah. This is good short string.
> How about VIRTIO_F_ADMIN_PCI_SRIOV?

OK

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MST


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