linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] virtio: introduce a vDPA based transport

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Message-ID: <20200210133442.GS23346@mellanox.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:34:42 -0400
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
To:     Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 4/5] virtio: introduce a vDPA based transport

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 11:56:07AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> This patch introduces a vDPA transport for virtio. This is used to
> use kernel virtio driver to drive the mediated device that is capable
> of populating virtqueue directly.

Is this comment still right? Is there a mediated device still?

Jason