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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 00:50:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170406004845-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170405133822.76cda620@t450s.home>

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 01:38:22PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> The previous intention of trying to handle all sorts of AER faults
> clearly had more value, though even there the implementation and
> configuration requirements restricted the practicality.  For instance
> is AER support actually useful to a customer if it requires all ports
> of a multifunction device assigned to the VM?  This seems more like a
> feature targeting whole system partitioning rather than general VM
> device assignment use cases.  Maybe that's ok, but it should be a clear
> design decision.

Alex, what kind of testing do you expect to be necessary?
Would you say testing on real hardware and making it trigger
AER errors is a requirement?

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-05 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-23  9:07 [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Cao jin
2017-03-24 22:12 ` Alex Williamson
2017-03-28 13:47   ` Cao jin
2017-03-28 16:12     ` Alex Williamson
2017-03-29  0:01       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-29  2:55         ` Alex Williamson
2017-03-30 18:00           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-03-30 18:16             ` Alex Williamson
2017-04-05  8:54               ` Cao jin
2017-04-05 19:38                 ` Alex Williamson
2017-04-05 21:50                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2017-04-05 22:19                     ` Alex Williamson
2017-04-05 22:36                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-04-05 22:56                         ` Alex Williamson
2017-04-06  8:53                         ` Cao jin
2017-04-06 15:35                           ` Alex Williamson
2017-04-06  8:49                   ` Cao jin
2017-04-05 21:56                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-04-06  8:49                   ` Cao jin
2017-04-06 15:31                     ` Alex Williamson

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