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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com,
	alex.williamson@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vfio/pci: Support error recovery
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:24:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170112182135-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58759015.5060909@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 09:53:25AM +0800, Cao jin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/10/2017 11:11 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 07:46:17PM +0800, Cao jin wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 01/10/2017 07:04 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 05:15:36PM +0800, Cao jin wrote:
> >>>> Support serious device error recovery
> >>>
> >>> serious?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Sorry for my poor vocabulary if it confuses people. I wanted to express
> >> the meaning that: vfio-pci actually cannot do a real recovery for device
> >> even if it provides the callbacks, it relies on the user to do a
> >> effective(or word "serious"?) recovery.
> >>
> >> Welcome the amendment on the commit log.
> > 
> > It's up to Alex, maybe he's able to figure it all out from
> > code, but the rest of us could benefit from a description
> > of what the patch does from userspace point of view.
> > 
> > Also, is it a pre-requisite of the userspace patches you posted?
> > 
> 
> Yes, it is.

Looks like it's time for another design document :)

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-12 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-31  9:15 [PATCH v2] vfio/pci: Support error recovery Cao jin
2017-01-09 23:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-01-10 11:46   ` Cao jin
2017-01-10 15:11     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-01-11  1:53       ` Cao jin
2017-01-12 16:24         ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2017-01-18 21:32       ` Alex Williamson
2017-01-19  3:04         ` Cao jin
2017-01-19 19:26           ` Alex Williamson
2017-01-18  5:33 ` Cao jin

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