From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/3] qdev: order devices by priority before creating them
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 10:28:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737pqfhac.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1462816056-17463-1-git-send-email-marcel@redhat.com> (Marcel Apfelbaum's message of "Mon, 9 May 2016 20:47:33 +0300")
Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com> writes:
> This series aims to allow more devices to be used with '-device'
> by sorting the devices based on a predefined creation order flag
> before creating them.
>
> Devices like IOMMU need to be created before others, so they can leverage
> the DeviceCreationPriority flag introduced by the first patch to DeviceClass.
>
> The second patch sorts the devices by their DeviceCreationPriority
> before creating them.
>
> Finally, the last patch demonstrates how it can be used to ensure
> the creation of host-bridges before the pci-bridges and pci-bridges before
> the others.
>
> I preferred to combine all the priorities into a single enum
> to better manage the creation order.
>
> This is an RFC because I only wanted to know if it seems like the right way to go.
> Comments are appreciated,
Can you explain why requiring the user to specify -device in a sane
order isn't good enough?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-10 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-09 17:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/3] qdev: order devices by priority before creating them Marcel Apfelbaum
2016-05-09 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/3] qdev: add device creation priority flag Marcel Apfelbaum
2016-05-09 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/3] vl.c: create devices by their " Marcel Apfelbaum
2016-05-09 17:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 3/3] hw/pci-bridge: add the corresponding " Marcel Apfelbaum
2016-05-10 8:28 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2016-05-10 11:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/3] qdev: order devices by priority before creating them Marcel Apfelbaum
2016-05-11 7:51 ` Markus Armbruster
2016-05-15 11:23 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2016-05-10 15:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-10 17:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-11 13:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-11 15:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-05-11 15:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-05-11 15:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
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