Re: [PATCH vhost v4 02/15] vdpa: Add VHOST_BACKEND_F_CHANGEABLE_VQ_ADDR_IN_SUSPEND flag

From: Dragos Tatulea
Date: Wed Dec 20 2023 - 07:57:36 EST


On Wed, 2023-12-20 at 12:05 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 11:46 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 2:09 AM Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > The virtio spec doesn't allow changing virtqueue addresses after
> > > DRIVER_OK. Some devices do support this operation when the device is
> > > suspended. The VHOST_BACKEND_F_CHANGEABLE_VQ_ADDR_IN_SUSPEND flag
> > > advertises this support as a backend features.
> >
> > There's an ongoing effort in virtio spec to introduce the suspend state.
> >
> > So I wonder if it's better to just allow such behaviour?
>
> Actually I mean, allow drivers to modify the parameters during suspend
> without a new feature.
>
Fine by me. Less code is better than more code. The v2 of this series would be
sufficient then.

Thanks