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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:05:50 +0800
From: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com>
Cc: "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Eugenio Perez Martin <eperezma@...hat.com>, 
	Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@...cle.com>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...dia.com>, 
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, 
	Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Parav Pandit <parav@...dia.com>, Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH vhost v4 02/15] vdpa: Add VHOST_BACKEND_F_CHANGEABLE_VQ_ADDR_IN_SUSPEND
 flag

On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 11:46 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 2:09 AM Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@...dia.com> 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.

Thanks

>
> Thanks
>
>


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