From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 1:28 AM

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 04:54:37PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:

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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 9:36 PM

On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 04:13:51 -0500 Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

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3. Why not use ioctl() interface?

Obviously I'm gonna ask you - why can't you use devlink?

This was considered.
However it seems that extending devlink for vdpa specific stats,

devices,

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config sounds overloading devlink beyond its defined scope.

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kuba what's your thinking here? Should I merge this as is?

No objections from me if people familiar with VDPA like it.

I was too occupied with the recent work on subfunction series.
I wanted to change the "parentdev" to "mgmtdev" to make it little more

clear for vdpa management tool to see vdpa mgmt device and operate on it.

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What do you think? Should I revise v2 or its late?

I need a rebase anyway, so sure.

ok. Thanks.

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