RE: [RFC 03/10] vdpa: add the infrastructure of vdpa-dev

[Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Hajnoczi [mailto:stefanha@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 5:49 PM
> To: Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
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> Subject: Re: [RFC 03/10] vdpa: add the infrastructure of vdpa-dev
> 
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 08:58:53AM +0800, Longpeng(Mike) wrote:
> > +static const VirtioPCIDeviceTypeInfo vhost_vdpa_device_pci_info = {
> > +    .base_name               = TYPE_VHOST_VDPA_DEVICE_PCI,
> > +    .generic_name            = "vhost-vdpa-device-pci",
> > +    .transitional_name       = "vhost-vdpa-device-pci-transitional",
> > +    .non_transitional_name   = "vhost-vdpa-device-pci-non-transitional",
> 
> Does vDPA support Transitional VIRTIO devices?
> 
> I expected this device to support Modern devices only.
> 

There's already a 0.95 vdpa driver (Alibaba ENI) in the kernel source and
supporting 0.95 devices is necessary for some older GuestOS.

I'm OK if other guys also approve of supporting 1.0+ devices only :)

> Stefan