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From: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pci: Error disabling SR-IOV if in VFs assigned
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:28:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160613212810.GG12766@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160613211411.GC18747@localhost>

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 04:14:11PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 03:39:58PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > Every sriov capable driver has to check if any guest is using a virtual
> > function prior to disabling, so let's make it common code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
> 
> If I understand the discussion correctly, this is still racy but
> nobody objects to adding this until we have a better, non-racy
> solution.

My understanding as well: there's a potential race, but no different
than what exists with today.
 
> However, you added this in common code and took advantage of it in
> nvme.  Good so far.  But we have about a dozen other drivers that call
> pci_vfs_assigned().  I assume some of those places could be changed so
> they take advantage of this check in the core instead?

> Can we do that at the same time?  If we add good new stuff and only
> use it one place, there's not as much overall goodness as there would
> be if we updated everybody to do it similarly.

Sounds good, I'll send a series taking advantage of this for all the
other PF drivers duplicating this check in their sriov_configure.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-13 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-17 21:39 [PATCH 1/2] pci: Error disabling SR-IOV if in VFs assigned Keith Busch
2016-05-17 21:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] nvme/pci: Enable SR-IOV capabilities Keith Busch
2016-05-23 10:52   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-23 17:06   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-05-23 17:09     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-23 17:21     ` Keith Busch
2016-05-23 21:51       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-05-17 22:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] pci: Error disabling SR-IOV if in VFs assigned Alex Williamson
2016-05-23 10:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-05-23 15:07     ` Alex Williamson
2016-05-23 15:10       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-13 21:14 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-06-13 21:28   ` Keith Busch [this message]
2016-06-13 21:57     ` Keith Busch
2016-06-13 22:26       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-06-13 22:35         ` Keith Busch
2016-06-15 10:26           ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-15 15:38             ` Bjorn Helgaas

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