From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: default legacy PCI device assignment support to "n"
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 08:47:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1433429237.3510.158.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557061B2.1030802@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2015-06-04 at 16:33 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> On 04/06/2015 16:31, Bandan Das wrote:
> > > VFIO has proved itself a much better option than KVM's built-in
> > > device assignment. It is mature, provides better isolation because
> > > it enforces ACS, and even the userspace code is being tested on
> > > a wider variety of hardware these days than the legacy support.
> > >
> > > Disable legacy device assignment by default.
> >
> > Shouldn't we mark it as Deprecated then ?
>
> Yes, good idea! You mean just " (DEPRECATED)" after the string, right?
The ioctls should probably also be listed as deprecated in
Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt. There's also
Documentation/ABI/obsolete if we intend to remove the code eventually.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-04 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-04 8:06 [PATCH] kvm: x86: default legacy PCI device assignment support to "n" Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-04 14:31 ` Bandan Das
2015-06-04 14:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-04 14:47 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2015-06-04 14:48 ` Bandan Das
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