Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] qom: new object to associate device to numa node

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:50:30 +0000
Ankit Agrawal <ankita@nvidia.com> wrote:

> >>> Jonathan, you pointed out interface design issues in your review of v2.>  
> >> Are you fully satisfied with the interface in v3?
> >>
> >> Yes. I'm fine with the interface in this version (though it's v7, so I'm 
> >> lost
> >> on v2 vs v3!)  
> >
> > Looks like I can't count to 7!
> >
> > With NUMA capitalized in the doc comment, QAPI schema
> > Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> >
> > Thanks!  
> 
> Thanks! Will fix that in the next version.

The following is really me arguing with myself, so can probably be
ignored, but maybe it will spark an idea from someone else!

One trivial tweak that might make our life easier if anyone adds
support in the future for the other device handle type might be to go
with simply dev rather than pci-dev.

There is a sticky corner though if a device is a PCI device
and in ACPI DSDT so maybe we are better off adding acpi-dev
to take either pci-dev or acpi-dev?

Annoyingly for generic ports, (I'm reusing this infrastructure here)
the kernel code currently only deals with the ACPI form (for CXL host
bridges).  Given I point that at the bus of a PXB_CXL it is both
a PCI device, and the only handle we have for getting to the
Root Bridge ACPI handle.

So I think I've argued myself around to thinking we need to extend
the interface with another optional parameter if we ever do support
the ACPI handle for generic initiators :(

Jonathan