Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vhost-vsock: support parse mergeable feature

[jiangyiwen <jiangyiwen@huawei.com>]

On 2018/12/13 23:34, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 11:27:24AM +0800, jiangyiwen wrote:
>> On 2018/12/12 21:19, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 05:54:49PM +0800, jiangyiwen wrote:
>>>> Currently vhost-vsock doesn't have any feature bits, so it
>>>> don't support parse mergeable rx buffer feature. And the
>>>> feature is support in another series of patches named
>>>> "VSOCK: support mergeable rx buffer in vhost-vsock".
>>>>
>>>> So we neet to support parse mergeable feature in vhost-vsock
>>>> if above patches are merged.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yiwen Jiang <jiangyiwen@huawei.com>
>>>
>>> OK but what does it do? this just defines the feature bit ...
>>> Also pls copy virtio-dev whenever you change the host/guest
>>> interface.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> In my opinion, for vhost device, device feature bits need to be
>> intersected between vhost and qemu, so I add mergeable rx buffer feature
>> into vdev->host_features, and then intersected with vhost_dev features.
>>
>> Later if someone want to add new feature, it can use virtio_add_feature()
>> in vhost_vsock_get_features().
> 
> Hi Yiwen,
> I think Michael's comment is about documenting the behavior of the new
> feature bit.
> 
> Each change to a VIRTIO device host<->guest interface needs to be
> discussed in the VIRTIO community <virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org> and
> described in a patch to the VIRTIO specification
> (https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/).
> 
> Stefan
> 

Hi Stefan,

Ok, I will fix it in the later version, I have not sent
a series of patches before, thank you for your help.

Thanks again,
Yiwen.