From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>
Cc: "Han, Weidong" <weidong.han@intel.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, muli@il.ibm.com, benami@il.ibm.com, "Kay,
Allen M" <allen.m.kay@intel.com>,
chrisw@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] KVM/userspace: Support for assigning PCI devices to guest
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:19:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4846A469.4020009@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806021341.23106.amit.shah@qumranet.com>
Amit Shah wrote:
> The first option can be enforced by calls to pci_enable_device() and
> pci_request_regions(). This can solve the problem of assigning multiple
> devices of the same guest as well.
>
Yes, that sounds good.
> Dynamically unbinding devices is prone to a lot of errors and assumptions and
> such policy shouldn't be enforced. We should either fail the assignment and
> let the administrator take care of doing the right thing and start the guest
> or just not launch the guest at all.
>
Agreed.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-04 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-02 6:46 [PATCH 1/1] KVM/userspace: Support for assigning PCI devices to guest Amit Shah
2008-06-02 7:18 ` Han, Weidong
2008-06-02 8:11 ` Amit Shah
2008-06-04 14:19 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-06-04 14:43 ` Amit Shah
2008-06-04 14:53 ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-04 15:53 ` Amit Shah
2008-06-04 16:11 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-06-02 13:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-06-02 17:07 ` Amit Shah
2008-06-02 13:58 ` Anthony Liguori
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-22 12:13 [PATCH 4/4] KVM: Device assignemnt with VT-d Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-22 12:18 ` device assignment - userspace part Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-22 12:18 ` [PATCH 1/1] KVM/userspace: Support for assigning PCI devices to guest Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-28 16:26 [PATCH 5/5] This patch extends the VT-d driver to support KVM Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-28 16:32 ` Device assignment - userspace part Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-07-28 16:32 ` [PATCH 1/1] KVM/userspace: Support for assigning PCI devices to guest Ben-Ami Yassour
2008-08-01 3:09 ` Han, Weidong
2008-08-05 9:41 ` Ben-Ami Yassour
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