From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
To: "Han, Weidong" <weidong.han@intel.com>
Cc: "Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@intel.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Avi Kivity" <avi@redhat.com>,
benami@il.ibm.com, muli@il.ibm.com, "Kay,
Allen M" <allen.m.kay@intel.com>,
"Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Remaining passthrough/VT-d tasks list
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:32:02 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809241332.02833.amit.shah@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0122C7C995D32147B66BF4F440D3016301C49FE6@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com>
* On Wednesday 24 Sep 2008 13:21:25 Han, Weidong wrote:
> Amit Shah wrote:
>>> - Add dummy driver to hide/unbind passthrough device from
>>> host kernel
> > This isn't needed; we currently don't assign the device to the guest
> > if we find that a driver is already loaded. I intend to change it to
> > failing guest start altogether in case we find a module already using
> > a device. When a guest exits, we release all the structures and hence
> > even unloading kvm is not needed to reclaim the device on the host
> > side.
>
> This task needn't targe 2.6.28. For long term, we need it to make device
> assignment more user friendly.
How is the current scheme not user friendly? Or, how will adding a "dummy
driver" be more user friendly?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-24 6:15 Remaining passthrough/VT-d tasks list Han, Weidong
2008-09-24 6:31 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-24 6:58 ` Zhang, Xiantao
2008-09-24 7:41 ` Amit Shah
2008-09-24 7:51 ` Han, Weidong
2008-09-24 8:02 ` Amit Shah [this message]
2008-09-24 8:38 ` Han, Weidong
2008-09-24 8:49 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 9:56 ` Amit Shah
2008-09-24 12:25 ` Han, Weidong
2008-09-24 8:46 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 9:58 ` Amit Shah
2008-09-24 10:46 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 14:46 ` Han, Weidong
2008-09-24 8:38 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 8:46 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-27 9:15 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-27 9:49 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-27 10:09 ` Jan Kiszka
2008-09-27 10:16 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-28 6:03 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-09-28 1:48 ` Tian, Kevin
2008-09-28 2:03 ` Dong, Eddie
2008-09-28 2:29 ` Tian, Kevin
2008-09-28 4:22 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-28 4:50 ` Tian, Kevin
2008-09-28 5:04 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-28 5:17 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-10-05 10:18 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-28 5:54 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-24 8:34 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 8:42 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-24 8:53 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 9:08 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-24 9:22 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 9:43 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-24 9:51 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-28 6:09 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-24 9:40 ` Amit Shah
2008-09-24 9:46 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 15:39 ` Dong, Eddie
2008-09-27 10:11 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-28 2:28 ` Dong, Eddie
2008-09-28 4:25 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-28 5:54 ` Dong, Eddie
2008-09-24 8:39 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 8:50 ` Han, Weidong
2008-09-24 9:12 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-24 15:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-24 15:38 ` Avi Kivity
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