[libvirt] PATCH: Always reset PCI devices
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Mon Mar 2 19:48:37 UTC 2009
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:27:17PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Mark's patches added a attribute managed='yes|no' for PCI <hostdev>
> configuration. This allows the caller app to indicate who is responsible
> for attaching/detaching the PCI device from the host drivers. When using
> managed=yes, libvirt does it, while using managed=no, the someone else
> should do it - typically blacklist the devices in /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> Before launching a guest though the devices need to be reset. Mark made
> the reset operation conditional on managed=yes, which was not what I
> had intended. libvirtd should always reset the devices so they are in
> a sane state before booting, regardless of who manages the host driver
> binding. The forthcoming PCI passthrough suppor in the Xen driver will
> work in this way - we'll only support managed=no, but XenD will still
> always do the reset of devices
>
> I also add a comment to remind us that we should add validation that
> the PCI device is not still in use in the non-managed case.
ACK, but adding in the comment a hint on how to do that validation
would be nice.
Daniel
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