Re: [PATCH v1 10/10] vhost-vdpa: introduce vhost-vdpa net client

[Cindy Lu]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 3:13 PM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> QAPI schema review only.
>
> Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > This patch set introduces a new net client type: vhost-vdpa.
> > vhost-vdpa net client will set up a vDPA device which is specified
> > by a "vhostdev" parameter.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lingshan Zhu <lingshan.zhu@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
> [...]
> > diff --git a/qapi/net.json b/qapi/net.json
> > index cebb1b52e3..03aad67693 100644
> > --- a/qapi/net.json
> > +++ b/qapi/net.json
> > @@ -428,6 +428,24 @@
> >      '*vhostforce':    'bool',
> >      '*queues':        'int' } }
> >
> > +##
> > +# @NetdevVhostVDPAOptions:
> > +#
> > +# Vhost-vdpa network backend
>
> Considering this ends up in QMP reference documentation, could you add a
> hint on what "Vhost-vdpa" is?
>
> > +#
> > +# @vhostdev: name of a vdpa dev path in sysfs
>
> How is this thing to be spelled in text, vdpa, VDPA or vDPA?
>
> Avoid unnecessary abbreviations in doc text, please: write "device
> path", not "dev path".
>
> > +#            (default path:/dev/vhost-vdpa-$ID)
>
> What's $ID?
>
Thanks, I will rewrite this part and make it clear
> > +#
> > +# @queues: number of queues to be created for multiqueue vhost-vdpa
> > +#          (default: 1)
> > +#
> > +# Since: 5.1
> > +##
> > +{ 'struct': 'NetdevVhostVDPAOptions',
> > +  'data': {
> > +    '*vhostdev':     'str',
> > +    '*queues':       'int' } }
> > +
> >  ##
> >  # @NetClientDriver:
> >  #
> > @@ -437,7 +455,7 @@
> >  ##
> >  { 'enum': 'NetClientDriver',
> >    'data': [ 'none', 'nic', 'user', 'tap', 'l2tpv3', 'socket', 'vde',
> > -            'bridge', 'hubport', 'netmap', 'vhost-user' ] }
> > +            'bridge', 'hubport', 'netmap', 'vhost-user', 'vhost-vdpa' ] }
> >
> >  ##
> >  # @Netdev:
> > @@ -465,7 +483,8 @@
> >      'bridge':   'NetdevBridgeOptions',
> >      'hubport':  'NetdevHubPortOptions',
> >      'netmap':   'NetdevNetmapOptions',
> > -    'vhost-user': 'NetdevVhostUserOptions' } }
> > +    'vhost-user': 'NetdevVhostUserOptions',
> > +    'vhost-vdpa': 'NetdevVhostVDPAOptions' } }
> >
> >  ##
> >  # @NetLegacy:
>