On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 07:53:55PM +0800, piaojun wrote: > > > On 2019/9/6 19:52, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 12:36 PM Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:15:14AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > >>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:49 PM Vivek Goyal wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Michael Tsirkin pointed out issues w.r.t various locking related TODO > >>>> items and races w.r.t device removal. > >>>> > >>>> In this first round of cleanups, I have taken care of most pressing > >>>> issues. > >>>> > >>>> These patches apply on top of following. > >>>> > >>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse.git#virtiofs-v4 > >>>> > >>>> I have tested these patches with mount/umount and device removal using > >>>> qemu monitor. For example. > >>> > >>> Is device removal mandatory? Can't this be made a non-removable > >>> device? Is there a good reason why removing the virtio-fs device > >>> makes sense? > >> > >> Hot plugging and unplugging virtio PCI adapters is common. I'd very > >> much like removal to work from the beginning. > > > > Can you give an example use case? > > I think VirtFS migration need hot plugging, or it may cause QEMU crash > or some problems. Live migration is currently unsupported. Hot unplugging the virtio-fs device would allow the guest to live migrate successfully, so it's a useful feature to work around the missing live migration support. Is this what you mean? Stefan