Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] Use of unique identifier for pairing virtio and passthrough devices...

[Roman Kagan]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 09:28:17AM -0500, Venu Busireddy wrote:
> On 2018-07-03 12:58:25 +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > My point with these two questions is that since this patchset is
> > defining external interfaces -- with guest OS, with management layer --
> 
> This patch set is not defining any external interfaces. All this is doing
> is provide the means and locations to store the "group identifier". How
> that info will be used, I thought, should be another patch set.

Device properties are a part of the interface to the management layer.
PCI vendor capabilities are a part of the interface to the guest OS.

So yes, I think it makes sense to have at least a rough plan on how it's
going to be used.

Thanks,
Roman.