Re: [Qemu-devel] [2.5 issue] virtio-1 in virtio-net and old vhost

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On 12/02/2015 06:11 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:54:09 +0800
> Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> I wonder instead of rolling back in post_plugged(), maybe we could just
>> delay the region setups to post_plugged(). 
> If this is the saner thing to do for pci, sure.
>
>> Or just call transport
>> specific device_plugged() after get_features() call in
>> virtio_bus_device_plugged(). 
> The problem is that the VERSION_1 bit is only added in the
> ->device_plugged() callbacks by the transport, so ->get_features() can
> only be called after that. We have a dependency in both directions :(

Ok.

>
>> And I'm not sure we need to handle
>> migration compatibility in this case.
> The thing we would need to care about is basically the host kernel on
> the target supporting less than the host kernel on the source. Do we
> care about that in other contexts right now?

The problem is for pci: without this patch, guest may always see modern
bar is "disable-modern=false". But with this patch, on an old kernel
that does not support VERSION_1, even "disable-modern=false" were
specified, guest can not see modern bar anymore. Looks like a guest
visible change.