On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 2:08 PM Liu,Feng(INF) <liufen...@baidu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Experts
>         I have read the upstream code about vdpa, and I notice that there is 
> a new struct vdpa_mgmt_dev have been added.
>         Every driver implements dev_add() interface, such as mlx5 use 
> mlx5_vdpa_dev_add(). This interface completes the creation of the vdpa 
> device, hardware initialization and system registration. And I found that 
> only netlink will call the dev_add() interface, in 
> vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_add_set_doit(). While the probe() function just register 
> vdpa_mgmt_dev without call dev_add()
>         So, my questions are:
>         Does it create a vdpa device only through the netlink interface?

Yes, this is the plan, and we're working on converting all the drivers
to support that.

> The system scans the PCI device and does not automatically create the 
> corresponding vdpa device?

It's a choice for the vDPA parent driver but we suggest creating vDPA
via netlink(), this gives a persistent method for the management
layer.

Thanks

>
>
> Thanks
> Feng
>

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