Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtio: reset all qbuses too when writing to the status field

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 16/12/2012 22:15, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
>> A PCI bus reset (or FLR) calls pci_device_reset which does this
>>
>> void pci_device_reset(PCIDevice *dev)
>> {
>>     int r;
>>
>>     qdev_reset_all(&dev->qdev);
>>     ...
>> }
>>
>> This is exactly how a PCI bus reset clears pending MSIX vectors.
>>
>> Paolo
> 
> Yes but I mean virtio-pci device is not a bus.
> virtio could be a bus.
> Our modeling seems incorrect and relying on it for correctness,
> looks a bit wrong.

If virtio were a bus, everything would work just as well.  The bus reset
method would not be implemented and qdev_reset_all would proceed past
the bus and reset the virtio device.  So virtio_reset would not be
needed either.

Paolo