Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support

Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-04-05T21:50:34Z

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?

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