Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH 0/5] virtio: introduce SUSPEND bit and vq state

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 04:38:44PM +0800, Zhu, Lingshan wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/6/2023 4:29 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 04:16:32PM +0800, Zhu Lingshan wrote:
> > > This series introduces
> > > 1)a new SUSPEND bit in the device status
> > > Which is used to suspend the device, so that the device states
> > > and virtqueue states are stabilized.
> > > 
> > > 2)virtqueue state and its accessor, to get and set last_avail_idx
> > > and last_used_idx of virtqueues.
> > > 
> > > The main usecase of these new facilities is Live Migration.
> > > 
> > > Future work: dirty page tracking and in-flight descriptors.
> > oh that answers my question - it's not covered.
> > I don't think we can merge this without in-flight descriptor
> > support.
> When SUSPEND, we require the device wait until all descriptors that
> being processed to finish and mark them as used.(In patch 2)
> at this point there may be no in-flight descriptors, so this is still
> self-consistent. The tracker for in-flight descriptors is excluded to
> make this series small and focus.

Does not work generally.
Imagine RX ring of a network device for example. You can wait
as long as you can but if there's no incoming network traffic
buffers will not be used.

Also please, keep to the spec terminology. buffers are used not
descriptors. Best to keep it straight errors will not leak into
spec.


> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > This series addresses many comments from Jason, Stefan and Eugenio
> > > from RFC series.
> > > 
> > > Zhu Lingshan (5):
> > >    virtio: introduce vq state as basic facility
> > >    virtio: introduce SUSPEND bit in device status
> > >    virtqueue: constraints for virtqueue state
> > >    virtqueue: ignore resetting vqs when SUSPEND
> > >    virtio-pci: implement VIRTIO_F_QUEUE_STATE
> > > 
> > >   content.tex       | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >   transport-pci.tex |  18 +++++++
> > >   2 files changed, 136 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > 2.35.3
> > > 
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