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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Sameeh Jubran <sameeh@daynix.com>,
	Yan Vugenfirer <yan@daynix.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/2] Attempt to implement the standby feature for assigned network devices
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 13:26:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181207132044-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181207164629.GP13784@redhat.com>

On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 04:46:29PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> I'm not convinced it is useful enough to justify playing games in qdev
> with dynamically hiding devices. This adds complexity to the code which
> will make it harder to maintain and debug at runtime.

I actually think a hidden device is a useful concept to model.
E.g. you can have a powered off slot and a PCI device in
such a slot isn't visible but isn't gone either.

Right now we force-eject such devices.

But it sounds reasonable that e.g. a bunch of guests cooperate
and share an assigned device and then whoever wants to
use it, powers it up. These patches do not implement this
of course but it's a step in that direction.

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-07 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-25 14:06 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/2] Attempt to implement the standby feature for assigned network devices Sameeh Jubran
2018-10-25 14:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/2] qdev/qbus: Add hidden device support Sameeh Jubran
2018-10-25 14:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 2/2] virtio-net: Implement VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature Sameeh Jubran
2018-10-25 18:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/2] Attempt to implement the standby feature for assigned network devices Sameeh Jubran
2018-12-05 16:18   ` Michael Roth
2018-12-05 17:09     ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Peter Krempa
2018-12-05 17:22       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-05 17:26         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-05 17:43       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-10-25 22:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-05 17:18 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-05 17:26   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-05 20:24   ` Michael Roth
2018-12-05 20:44     ` Michael Roth
2018-12-05 20:58       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-05 20:57     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-06 10:01       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-06 10:06     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-07 16:36       ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-12-07 16:46         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-07 18:26           ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-12-07 17:50       ` Roman Kagan
2018-12-07 18:20       ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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