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 -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org