Re: [libvirt] [RFC PATCH 1/9] vfio/pci: introduce mediate ops to intercept vfio-pci ops
On 12/4/19 9:25 PM, Yan Zhao wrote:
when vfio-pci is bound to a physical device, almost all the hardware
resources are passthroughed.
The intent is obvious, but it sounds awkward to a native speaker.
s/passthroughed/passed through/
Sometimes, vendor driver of this physcial device may want to mediate
some
physical
hardware resource access for a short period of time, e.g. dirty page
tracking during live migration.
Here we introduce mediate ops in vfio-pci for this purpose.
Vendor driver can register a mediate ops to vfio-pci.
But rather than directly bind to the passthroughed device, the
passed-through
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