Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] vfio/pci: introduce mediate ops to intercept vfio-pci ops | From | Eric Blake <> | Date | Fri, 6 Dec 2019 17:13:30 -0600 |
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On 12/4/19 9:25 PM, Yan Zhao wrote: > when vfio-pci is bound to a physical device, almost all the hardware > resources are passthroughed.
The intent is obvious, but it sounds awkward to a native speaker. s/passthroughed/passed through/
> Sometimes, vendor driver of this physcial device may want to mediate some
physical
> hardware resource access for a short period of time, e.g. dirty page > tracking during live migration. > > Here we introduce mediate ops in vfio-pci for this purpose. > > Vendor driver can register a mediate ops to vfio-pci. > But rather than directly bind to the passthroughed device, the
passed-through
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