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Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support

From "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support
Date 2017-04-06 00:00 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 01:38:22PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> The previous intention of trying to handle all sorts of AER faults
> clearly had more value, though even there the implementation and
> configuration requirements restricted the practicality.  For instance
> is AER support actually useful to a customer if it requires all ports
> of a multifunction device assigned to the VM?  This seems more like a
> feature targeting whole system partitioning rather than general VM
> device assignment use cases.  Maybe that's ok, but it should be a clear
> design decision.

Alex, what kind of testing do you expect to be necessary?
Would you say testing on real hardware and making it trigger
AER errors is a requirement?

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MST

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Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> - 2017-03-28 15:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2017-03-28 18:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-29 02:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2017-03-29 05:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-03-30 20:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2017-03-30 20:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> - 2017-04-05 10:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2017-04-05 21:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-04-06 00:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2017-04-06 00:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-04-06 00:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2017-04-06 01:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> - 2017-04-06 11:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2017-04-06 17:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> - 2017-04-06 11:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2017-04-06 00:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> - 2017-04-06 11:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v6] vfio error recovery: kernel support Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2017-04-06 17:40 +0200

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