Dear Maxime,

Responses inline.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 8:08 AM
> To: Bathija, Pravin <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] vhost_user: header defines for add/rem mem
> region
>
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> On 11/13/25 1:44 PM, Pravin M Bathija wrote:
> > The changes in this file cover the enum message requests for
> > supporting add/remove memory regions. The front-end vhost-user client
> > sends messages like get max memory slots, add memory region and remove
> > memory region which are covered in these changes which are on the
> > vhost-user back-end. The changes also include data structure
> > definition of memory region to be added/removed. The data structure
> > VhostUserMsg has been changed to include the memory region.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pravin M Bathija <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >   lib/vhost/vhost_user.h | 10 ++++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.h b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.h index
> > ef486545ba..5a0e747b58 100644
> > --- a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.h
> > +++ b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.h
> > @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
> >                                      (1ULL <<
> VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_BACKEND_SEND_FD) | \
> >                                      (1ULL <<
> VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_HOST_NOTIFIER) | \
> >                                      (1ULL <<
> VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_PAGEFAULT) | \
> > +                                    (1ULL <<
> VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIGURE_MEM_SLOTS) | \
>
> It should be enabled only once the feature is actually implemented, otherwise
> bisection may fail.

So to clarify, you are suggesting, this change ought to be the final patch in 
the patch-set ?
>
> >                                      (1ULL <<
> VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_STATUS))
> >
> >   typedef enum VhostUserRequest {
> > @@ -67,6 +68,9 @@ typedef enum VhostUserRequest {
> >     VHOST_USER_POSTCOPY_END = 30,
> >     VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD = 31,
> >     VHOST_USER_SET_INFLIGHT_FD = 32,
> > +   VHOST_USER_GET_MAX_MEM_SLOTS = 36,
> > +   VHOST_USER_ADD_MEM_REG = 37,
> > +   VHOST_USER_REM_MEM_REG = 38,
> >     VHOST_USER_SET_STATUS = 39,
> >     VHOST_USER_GET_STATUS = 40,
> >   } VhostUserRequest;
> > @@ -91,6 +95,11 @@ typedef struct VhostUserMemory {
> >     VhostUserMemoryRegion
> regions[VHOST_MEMORY_MAX_NREGIONS];
> >   } VhostUserMemory;
> >
> > +typedef struct VhostUserSingleMemReg {
> > +   uint64_t padding;
> > +   VhostUserMemoryRegion region;
> > +} VhostUserSingleMemReg;
> > +
> >   typedef struct VhostUserLog {
> >     uint64_t mmap_size;
> >     uint64_t mmap_offset;
> > @@ -186,6 +195,7 @@ typedef struct __rte_packed_begin VhostUserMsg {
> >             struct vhost_vring_state state;
> >             struct vhost_vring_addr addr;
> >             VhostUserMemory memory;
> > +           VhostUserSingleMemReg memory_single;
> >             VhostUserLog    log;
> >             struct vhost_iotlb_msg iotlb;
> >             VhostUserCryptoSessionParam crypto_session;

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