From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-4655-cohuck=redhat.com@lists.oasis-open.org Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [10.110.1.242]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3739D985BD5 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 18:36:02 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 21:35:52 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20180709210946-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20180629221907.3662-1-venu.busireddy@oracle.com> <20180702161404.GA2339@rkaganb.sw.ru> <449f1449-ddf6-cd95-976c-14d04d8d503a@oracle.com> <20180703095825.GC30904@rkaganb.sw.ru> <20180709130035.GA6271@rkaganb.sw.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180709130035.GA6271@rkaganb.sw.ru> Subject: [virtio-dev] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] Use of unique identifier for pairing virtio and passthrough devices... To: Roman Kagan , si-wei liu , Venu Busireddy , Marcel Apfelbaum , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 04:00:36PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote: > > The assumption of failover driver is that the primary (PT device) will be > > able to get a datapath once it shows up in the guest . > > I wonder how universal this assumption is Not universal at all. It is however the simplest use-case we could think of, and that is as a result already supported by Linux. I for one will be happy if we spec out a fuller support for more use-cases but it's probably orthogonal to grouping. -- MST --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org