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From: Etienne Martineau <etmartin101@gmail.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KVM devices assignment; PCIe AER?
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:47:42 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1010261519310.2450@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101026221558.GZ25455@sequoia.sous-sol.org>


On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Chris Wright wrote:
>
> Right, and adding more to the existing KVM code which we are hoping to
> push to legacy support mode doesn't sound like a great idea.

I would totally agree with you if the alternative implementation to this 
legacy mode would be available in a relatively short time frame. I'm not 
sure about that?

>
>> In that context, do you think it's acceptable for KVM to be the
>> driver of the assigned devices? OR should we simply add the AER
>> logic into existing pci-stub and relay the information to user-space
>> through eventfd...
>
> I'm reluctant to add logic to pci-stub, but VFIO should be able to
> handle this directly.
>
I agree that VFIO should be able to do the job.

thanks,
-Etienne



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-26 22:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-26 16:41 KVM devices assignment; PCIe AER? etmartin101
2010-10-26 18:10 ` Alex Williamson
2010-10-26 18:21 ` Chris Wright
2010-10-26 18:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-10-26 20:24   ` Etienne Martineau
2010-10-26 20:42     ` Chris Wright
2010-10-26 22:08       ` Etienne Martineau
2010-10-26 22:15         ` Chris Wright
2010-10-26 22:17           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-10-26 22:47           ` Etienne Martineau [this message]
2010-10-26 23:05             ` Chris Wright
2010-10-27  3:51               ` Etienne Martineau
2010-10-27 14:54                 ` Alex Williamson
2010-10-27 18:23                   ` Etienne Martineau
2010-10-27 19:16                     ` Alex Williamson
2010-10-27 21:43                       ` Etienne Martineau
2010-10-27 22:58                         ` Alex Williamson
2010-10-28  4:58                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-10-28  5:17                             ` Alex Williamson
2010-10-28  5:39                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-10-28 23:36                           ` Etienne Martineau
2010-10-26 20:54     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-10-26 18:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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