Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Dec 2016 05:15:13 +0200 | From | "Michael S. Tsirkin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vfio/pci: Support error recovery |
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 03:43:13PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > So just don't do it then. Topology must match between host and guest, > > except maybe for the case of devices with host driver (e.g. PF) > > which we might be able to synchronize against. > > We're talking about host kernel level handling here. The host kernel > cannot defer the link reset to the user under the assumption that the > user is handling the devices in a very specific way. The moment we do > that, we've lost.
The way is same as baremetal though, so why not?
And if user doesn't do what's expected, we can do the full link reset on close.
-- MST
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