On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 11:59:26PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 02:43:37AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > Btw, what is that intel thing everyone is talking about? And why > > > would the virtio core support vendor specific behavior like that? > > > > It's not a thing it's Zhu Lingshan :) intel is just one of the vendors > > that implemented vdpa support and so Zhu Lingshan from intel is working > > on vdpa and has also proposed virtio spec extensions for migration. > > intel's driver is called ifcvf. vdpa composes all this stuff that is > > added to vfio in userspace, so it's a different approach. > > Well, so let's call it virtio live migration instead of intel. > > And please work all together in the virtio committee that you have > one way of communication between controlling and controlled functions. > If one extension does it one way and the other a different way that's > just creating a giant mess.
Absolutely, this is exactly what I keep suggesting. Thanks for bringing this up, will help me drive the point home! -- MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
