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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Liu Ping Fan <pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Liu Ping Fan <qemulist@gmail.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qom: removal of link property need to release its target
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:35:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5035EB36.40807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mx1mo8iy.fsf@codemonkey.ws>

Il 23/08/2012 00:40, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
> I don't really like the notion of a "forced eject" where we delete a
> device when the guest is using it and not cooperative.  I don't see the
> benefit at all.
> 
> Forcing detachment of a BlockDriverState from a device followed by EIO
> being reported to the guest for all I/O ops makes sense to me.  But not
> forced removal of virtio-blk-pci.

PCI express even has support for detecting surprise removal early (with
card presence detection pins, that break contact before others) and
remove power before damaging the hardware.  It's very much a real thing.

You could surprise-remove an assigned card from under the feet of a
non-cooperating guest, for example.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-23  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-22  3:02 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qom: removal of link property need to release its target Liu Ping Fan
2012-08-22 12:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-22 16:36   ` Anthony Liguori
2012-08-22 20:55     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-22 21:41       ` Anthony Liguori
2012-08-22 22:01         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-22 22:40           ` Anthony Liguori
2012-08-23  8:35             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-08-23  8:02     ` liu ping fan
2012-08-22 17:07 ` Andreas Färber

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