Re: [PATCH 06/21] vdpa: introduce virtqueue groups

From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Date: Mon Jan 04 2021 - 05:05:44 EST


On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 02:48:03PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> This patch introduces virtqueue groups to vDPA device. The virtqueue
> group is the minimal set of virtqueues that must share an address
> space. And the adddress space identifier could only be attached to
> a specific virtqueue group.
>
> A new mandated bus operation is introduced to get the virtqueue group
> ID for a specific virtqueue.
>
> All the vDPA device drivers were converted to simply support a single
> virtqueue group.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/vdpa/ifcvf/ifcvf_main.c | 9 ++++++++-
> drivers/vdpa/mlx5/net/mlx5_vnet.c | 8 +++++++-
> drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c | 4 +++-
> drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> include/linux/vdpa.h | 12 +++++++++---
> 5 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Maybe consider calling it iotlb_group or iommu_group so the purpose of
the group is clear?

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