[virtio-dev] Re: [virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH 2/5] virtio: introduce SUSPEND bit in device status

On 9/18/2023 2:17 PM, Parav Pandit wrote:
>> From: Zhu, Lingshan <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2023 10:45 AM
>>
>> On 9/18/2023 12:42 PM, Parav Pandit wrote:
>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>> <[email protected] open.org> On Behalf Of Zhu, Lingshan
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2023 8:27 AM
>>>> a new feature bit: VIRTIO_F_RING_SUSPEND_RESET. If this feature bit
>>>> has been negotiated then the device allow reset a vq after SUSPEND.
>>> This is simply a wrong semantics to build to operate individual object after its
>> parent object is suspended.
>> A device can choose to respond to a set of signals and ignore others, right?
>>
>> And, This is not your admin vq based LM solution, therefore there is NO PARENT
>> objects.
> There is parent object.
> There is VQ which you propose to do SUSPEND_RESET of the parent virtio device which is already SUSPENDED.
that is why we plan to implement a new feature bit to control this behavior.

However, in next version, as MST suggested, I will forbid resetting vqs 
after SUSPEND.
>
> Admin commands and vq exists in the spec because to admin work.
> The admin vq series is split from its users because it is hard to do everything in one go.
I failed to process this comment, how is this related to the question?


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