[libvirt] [PATCH 22/24] hostdev: Streamline device ownership tracking

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 15:33 -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
> While writing the tomb for patch 20, I had one question/issue... You
> could have already addressed in your upcoming patches, but I'll ask
> anyway before I see them....
> 
> Essentially combining step5/step6 will *steal* from the inactiveList
> (the rich) and give to the activeList (the poor). That's not a problem.
> 
> But, doesn't this mean only managed devices are moved to activeList as
> opposed to all possible hostdevs (in pcidevs) - at least during Prepare?
>  Again it's this whole how does the inactiveList get populated conundrum
> (vis-a-vis devices in the guest XML that are not managed).

Should be addressed by the small spin-off series I posted yesterday :)

Cheers.

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Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team