Hi Stefano,

> From: Stefano Garzarella <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 8:04 PM
> 
> Hi folks,
> I was trying to understand if we have a way to specify which vDPA bus driver
> (e.g. vhost-vdpa, virtio-vdpa) a device should use.
> IIUC we don't have it, and the first registered driver is used when a new 
> device
> is registered.
> 
> I was thinking if it makes sense to extend the management API to specify which
> bus driver to use for a device. A use case could be for example a single host
> handling VMs and bare-metal containers, so we would have both virtio-vdpa
> and vhost-vdpa loaded and we want to attach some devices to VMs through
> vhost-vdpa and others to containers through virtio-vdpa.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
One option is, user keeps the drivers_autoprobe disabled for the vdpa bus using,

$ vdpa/vdpa dev add mgmtdev vdpasim_net name vdpa0 mac 00:11:22:33:44:55
$ echo 0 > /sys/bus/vdpa/drivers_autoprobe

And after vdpa device creation, it manually binds to the desired driver such as,

$ echo vdpa0 > /sys/bus/vdpa/drivers/virtio_vdpa/bind
Or
$ echo vdpa0 > /sys/bus/vdpa/drivers/vhost_vdpa/bind

In an case of VDUSE, it makes more sense to bind to the one of the above driver 
after user space has connected the use space backend to the kernel device.
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