Re: [PATCH] Improve the current FLR logic

[Yosuke Iwamatsu <y-iwamatsu@ab.jp.nec.com>]

Cui, Dexuan wrote:
> Thanks for your comments! 
> 
> For case 2) or 4), I think we might as well force the domain config file specifying all the related devices.

Specifying all the related devices means allowing the domain to use them
all, but there may be a case that people want to limit devices available
to guests.
(Suppose there is a device that has several functions without FLR and
the administrator wants to let the guest domain use only one function,
for example.)

> 
> xm_pci_list_assignable_devices() does access to sysfs and invoke hypercall directly.
> With respect to xmlrpc, I'm trying to move most of the function to xend.
> 
> I think xm_pci_list_assignable_devices only considers iommu devices. Maybe we can extend  it to non-iommu devices in future.
> 

Thank you,
-- Yosuke