Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 1/7] vfio: Start improving VFIO/EEH interface

2016-03-07 Thread David Gibson
On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 12:49:04PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:06:21 +1100 > David Gibson wrote: > > > At present the code handling IBM's Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) interface > > on VFIO devices operates by bypassing the usual VFIO logic with > > vfio_container_ioctl

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 1/7] vfio: Start improving VFIO/EEH interface

2016-03-07 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:06:21 +1100 David Gibson wrote: > At present the code handling IBM's Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) interface > on VFIO devices operates by bypassing the usual VFIO logic with > vfio_container_ioctl(). That's a poorly designed interface with unclear > semantics about exactl

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 1/7] vfio: Start improving VFIO/EEH interface

2016-02-28 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 02/29/2016 06:06 PM, David Gibson wrote: At present the code handling IBM's Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) interface on VFIO devices operates by bypassing the usual VFIO logic with vfio_container_ioctl(). That's a poorly designed interface with unclear semantics about exactly what can be opera

[Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 1/7] vfio: Start improving VFIO/EEH interface

2016-02-28 Thread David Gibson
At present the code handling IBM's Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) interface on VFIO devices operates by bypassing the usual VFIO logic with vfio_container_ioctl(). That's a poorly designed interface with unclear semantics about exactly what can be operated on. In particular it operates on a single