On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 06:43:50PM +0300, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
> Each device group has a type. For now, define 2 initial types of device
> groups: Self type and SR-IOV type.
>
> Self type - A group that has a single virtio device as a member.
>
> SR-IOV type - A virtio PCI SR-IOV physical function (PF) and its
> PCI SR-IOV virtual functions (VFs). This group may contain one or more
> virtio devices.
>
> Each device group has a unique identifier. This identifier is the group
> identifier (group_id).
>
> Each device within a device group has a unique identifier. This identifier
> is the group member identifier (group_member_id).
>
> Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <>
> Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <>
This looks good to me. Minor corrections below.
> ---
> introduction.tex | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/introduction.tex b/introduction.tex
> index aa9ec1b..e8bde45 100644
> --- a/introduction.tex
> +++ b/introduction.tex
> @@ -156,6 +156,30 @@ \subsection{Transition from earlier specification drafts}\label{sec:Transition f
> sections tagged "Legacy Interface" in the section title.
> These highlight the changes made since the earlier drafts.
>
> +\subsection{Device group}\label{sec:Introduction / Terminology / Device group}
> +
Maybe an introductory sentence. "It is occasionally useful to manage
multiple virtio devices as a group."
> +A device group includes one or more virtio devices. Each device group has a unique group identifier (group_id).
Wait a second. Is this true? To me it looks like group identifier should
actually be group type identifier. And it's not unique.
This rename will of course ripple to follow up patches.
> +A device can be a member of one or more device groups.
> +A device within a group is identified by a unique group member identifier (group_member_id).
group_member_id and group_id seem unused here. Drop?
> +The scope of the group member identifier is within the group. In other words, two device groups can have overlap group member identifiers.
> +A group member identifier is a 64-bit value in range of 0x0 - 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0.
in the range between 0x0 and 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0 inclusive.
> +A special group member identifier value of 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF refers to all the devices in a device group.
all devices in the device group.
> +
> +The supported device groups are:
> +\begin{enumerate}
> +\item Self type (group identifier = 0) - this group has only one device in the group. Each virtio device is a member of at least one device group, the Self type group.
> +For this group type, the device is identified by group member identifier of 0.
by a group member identifier
> +
> +\item SR-IOV type (group identifier = 1) - this group includes a virtio PCI SR-IOV physical function (PF) and all its virtual functions (VFs).
> +For this group type, the PF device has group member identifier of 0. Each VF group member identifier equals the PCI VF number according to the PCI Express Base Specification
> +(Single Root I/O Virtualization and Sharing chapter). Devices that are members in this group use the Virtio PCI transport (for more details see \ref{sec:Virtio Transport Options / Virtio Over PCI Bus}).
> +\end{enumerate}
> +
> +\begin{note}
> + The same device can be identified by different identifiers within different groups. For example, A virtual function device has a group
> + member identifier equals to 0 within Self type group and a group member identifier equals to VF number (e.g 4) within SR-IOV type group.
> +\end{note}
> +
> \section{Structure Specifications}\label{sec:Structure Specifications}
>
> Many device and driver in-memory structure layouts are documented using
> --
> 2.21.0
