> From: Xuan Zhuo <>
> Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 12:24 PM
> I know the gap. For us, the switch is under all devices(including the owner
> device).
> So we need to control the switch separately.
>
Right. Same for other devices too, including ours.
Hence, it is also located outside of the owner device (on a different system).
If the switch is not a virtio device, does it really need to be exposed as virtio object?
> In your structure, the owner device works as the switch. It has port to connect
> to the vf devices.
>
Right. I just put owner device as switch for simplicity of the discussion.
At this point to have port for owner device requires creating a dedicated switching object, to be located sometimes side by side inside the owner, sometimes outside.
All of these cases to be crafted, please rethink if this is _really_ needed as virtio object or not.
