From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>, alex.williamson@redhat.com
Cc: kevin.tian@intel.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
libvir-list@redhat.com, cohuck@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zhenyuw@linux.intel.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, shaopeng.he@intel.com,
zhi.a.wang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] vfio/pci: introduce mediate ops to intercept vfio-pci ops
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 17:13:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9461f821-73fd-a66f-e142-c1a55e38e7a0@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191205032536.29653-1-yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
On 12/4/19 9:25 PM, Yan Zhao wrote:
> when vfio-pci is bound to a physical device, almost all the hardware
> resources are passthroughed.
The intent is obvious, but it sounds awkward to a native speaker.
s/passthroughed/passed through/
> Sometimes, vendor driver of this physcial device may want to mediate some
physical
> hardware resource access for a short period of time, e.g. dirty page
> tracking during live migration.
>
> Here we introduce mediate ops in vfio-pci for this purpose.
>
> Vendor driver can register a mediate ops to vfio-pci.
> But rather than directly bind to the passthroughed device, the
passed-through
--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-06 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-05 3:24 [RFC PATCH 0/9] Introduce mediate ops in vfio-pci Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 3:25 ` [RFC PATCH 1/9] vfio/pci: introduce mediate ops to intercept vfio-pci ops Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 23:55 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-06 7:56 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-06 21:22 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-09 3:42 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-10 0:03 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-10 2:44 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-10 16:58 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-11 1:19 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-06 23:13 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2019-12-09 3:17 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 3:25 ` [RFC PATCH 2/9] vfio/pci: test existence before calling region->ops Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 3:26 ` [RFC PATCH 3/9] vfio/pci: register a default migration region Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 23:55 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-06 5:50 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 3:26 ` [RFC PATCH 4/9] vfio-pci: register default dynamic-trap-bar-info region Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 23:55 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-06 6:04 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-06 15:20 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-09 6:22 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-09 21:16 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-10 7:44 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-10 16:38 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-11 6:25 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-11 18:56 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-12 2:02 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-12 3:07 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-12 3:11 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 3:27 ` [RFC PATCH 5/9] samples/vfio-pci/igd_dt: sample driver to mediate a passthrough IGD Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 3:27 ` [RFC PATCH 6/9] sample/vfio-pci/igd_dt: dynamically trap/untrap subregion of IGD bar0 Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 3:27 ` [RFC PATCH 7/9] i40e/vf_migration: register mediate_ops to vfio-pci Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 3:27 ` [RFC PATCH 8/9] i40e/vf_migration: mediate migration region Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 3:27 ` [RFC PATCH 9/9] i40e/vf_migration: support dynamic trap of bar0 Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 6:33 ` [RFC PATCH 0/9] Introduce mediate ops in vfio-pci Jason Wang
2019-12-05 8:51 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-05 13:05 ` Jason Wang
2019-12-06 8:22 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-06 9:40 ` Jason Wang
2019-12-06 12:49 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-12 3:48 ` Jason Wang
2019-12-12 5:47 ` Yan Zhao
2019-12-18 2:36 ` Jason Wang
2019-12-06 17:42 ` Alex Williamson
2019-12-12 4:09 ` Jason Wang
2019-12-12 18:39 ` Alex Williamson
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