Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] virtio: make features 64bit wide

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

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:23:28AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Fr, 2015-05-29 at 16:53 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 09:51:20AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Make features 64bit wide everywhere.  Exception: command line flags
> > > remain 32bit and are copyed into the lower 32 host_features at
> > > initialization time.
> > > 
> > > On migration a full 64bit guest_features field is sent if one of the
> > > high bits is set, additionally to the lower 32bit guest_features field
> > > which must stay for compatibility reasons.  That way we send the lower
> > > 32 feature bits twice, but that way the code is simpler because we don't
> > > have to split and compose the 64bit features into two 32bit fields.
> > > 
> > > This depends on "move host_features" patch by cornelia.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks, this is very close to what I had in mind.
> > Question: why do we need the feature_flags field?
> > What's wrong with setting bits in host_features directly?
> 
> DEFINE_PROP_BIT works on uint32_t.
> 
> Alternative approach would be to introduce a DEFINE_PROP_BIT64 and use
> that for DEFINE_VIRTIO_COMMON_FEATURES.
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 


Yes - previous versions of this patch did exactly that.
Can you do DEFINE_PROP_BIT64 please?
We'll need DEFINE_PROP_BIT64 down the road anyway when
we add properties > 32.

If you prefer, I'm fine with this being a patch on top.

Let me know.


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MST