Re: KVM devices assignment; PCIe AER?

Etienne Martineau
2010-10-26T22:49:13Z

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Chris Wright wrote:
>
> Right, and adding more to the existing KVM code which we are hoping to
> push to legacy support mode doesn't sound like a great idea.

I would totally agree with you if the alternative implementation to this
legacy mode would be available in a relatively short time frame. I'm not
sure about that?

>
>> In that context, do you think it's acceptable for KVM to be the
>> driver of the assigned devices? OR should we simply add the AER
>> logic into existing pci-stub and relay the information to user-space
>> through eventfd...
>
> I'm reluctant to add logic to pci-stub, but VFIO should be able to
> handle this directly.
>
I agree that VFIO should be able to do the job.

thanks,
-Etienne