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From: | Eric Blake |
Subject: | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] vfio/pci: introduce mediate ops to intercept vfio-pci ops |
Date: | Fri, 6 Dec 2019 17:13:30 -0600 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2 |
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
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