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[Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>]

On 5/5/2023 11:40 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Each device group has a type. For now, define one initial group type: > > SR-IOV type - PCI SR-IOV virtual functions (VFs) of a given > PCI SR-IOV physical function (PF). This group may contain zero or more > virtio devices according to NumVFs configured. > > Each device within a group has a unique identifier. This identifier > is the group member identifier. > > Note: one can argue both ways whether the new device group handling > functionality (this and following patches) is closer > to a new device type or a new transport type. > > However, it's expected that we will add more features in the near > future. To facilitate this as much as possible of the text is located in > the new admin chapter. > > Effort was made to minimize transport-specific text. > > There's a bit of duplication with 0x1 repeated twice and > no special section for group type identifiers. > It seems ok to defer adding these until we have more group > types. > > Based-on-patch-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>