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Subject: Re: [virtio-comment] RE: [PATCH V2 3/6] virtio: dont reset vqs when SUSPEND
On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 2:20âPM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 11:25:41AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 2:32âPM Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 10:59 AM > > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 5:18âAM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 03:33:07PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > > > > > Lingshan claimed that suspending device is for live migration in commit > > > > log and in discussion he portray it as some basic facility unrelated to device > > > > migration such as debug etc. > > > > > > > Instead of claiming it as some non_device_migration facility does not > > > > make sense. > > > > > > > > > > > > It is used for migration for sure. > > > > > > > > > > Well having a generic facility to stop device sounds like a nice thing. > > > > > However the devil is in the detail. A lot of detail here seems very > > > > > much tailored to a very specific implementation in mind. > > > > > So thinking through how it will work e.g. for power management would > > > > > be a good excercise to figure out how it should work in detail. > > > > > > > > It might work in the case where there's no PM support in the transport. E.g for > > > > MMIO devices. > > > > > > > MMIO should implement PM like other transport. That brings the equivalency principle. > > > > > > > MMIO are usually platform devices. I don't see the point. > > > > Thanks > > I don't understand what you are saying. Why does it make sense to > suspend individual platform devices when they are suspended > with the whole platform? It is because we don't need to suspend the whole platform to migrate the virtio-MMIO device. Thanks > > -- > MST >
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