Re: [PATCH] PCI Hotplug: fakephp: fix deadlock... again

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:40:18PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> We get the "slot already scheduled for removal" because that
> particular device has 2 functions, and we're creating slots on a
> per-slot basis now, not a per-function basis.
> 
> Although, I wonder, Willy -- is that really the right thing to
> do? Seems like fakephp would be more useful if we did operate on
> a per-function basis, and not per-slot. Especially given Yu's
> work with SR-IOV, where we can apparently have lots of functions
> per a physical device.

I suspect it depends on what you believe the point of fakephp is.
My assumption was that it was a way to fake what would happen if you had
a hotplug controller for a particular slot.  In that context, the change
I made was clearly correct.  If you want to use it for hot-removing
individual functions from a Linux guest running under a hypervisor
(for example), that's much less useful.

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