netdev - Re: [PATCH V3 0/6] Conditionally read fields in dev cfg space

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Message-ID: <20220929033805-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2022 03:38:15 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     "Zhu, Lingshan" <lingshan.zhu@...el.com>
Cc:     jasowang@...hat.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/6] Conditionally read fields in dev cfg space

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:23:46PM +0800, Zhu, Lingshan wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Jason starts his vacation this afternoon, and next week is our national
> holiday.
> He has acked 3 ~ 6 of this series before, and I have made improvements based
> on his comments.
> Do you have any comments on patches 1 and 2?


No, I'll merge for next.

> Thanks,
> Zhu Lingshan
> On 9/29/2022 9:45 AM, Zhu Lingshan wrote:
> > This series intends to read the fields in virtio-net device
> > configuration space conditionally on the feature bits,
> > this means:
> > 
> > MTU exists if VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU is set
> > MAC exists if VIRTIO_NET_F_NET is set
> > MQ exists if VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ or VIRTIO_NET_F_RSS is set.
> > 
> > This series report device features to userspace and invokes
> > vdpa_config_ops.get_config() rather than
> > vdpa_get_config_unlocked() to read the device config spcae,
> > so no races in vdpa_set_features_unlocked()
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Changes form V2:
> > remove unnacessary checking for vdev->config->get_status (Jason)
> > 
> > Changes from V1:
> > 1)Better comments for VDPA_ATTR_VDPA_DEV_SUPPORTED_FEATURES,
> > only in the header file(Jason)
> > 2)Split original 3/4 into separate patches(Jason)
> > 3)Check FEATURES_OK for reporting driver features
> > in vdpa_dev_config_fill (Jason)
> > 4) Add iproute2 example for reporting device features
> > 
> > Zhu Lingshan (6):
> >    vDPA: allow userspace to query features of a vDPA device
> >    vDPA: only report driver features if FEATURES_OK is set
> >    vDPA: check VIRTIO_NET_F_RSS for max_virtqueue_paris's presence
> >    vDPA: check virtio device features to detect MQ
> >    vDPA: fix spars cast warning in vdpa_dev_net_mq_config_fill
> >    vDPA: conditionally read MTU and MAC in dev cfg space
> > 
> >   drivers/vdpa/vdpa.c       | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >   include/uapi/linux/vdpa.h |  4 +++
> >   2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >