[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 5/5] vfio: enable vfio hotplug by req notifier handler
Jeff Guo
jia.guo at intel.com
Sat Sep 29 07:51:39 CEST 2018
Anatoly, thanks for your review, please see comment as below.
On 9/26/2018 8:28 PM, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 17-Aug-18 11:51 AM, Jeff Guo wrote:
>> This patch will add req notifier processing to enable hotplug for vfio.
>> When device is be hotplug-out, the vfio kernel module will sent req
>> notifier to request user space to release the allocated resources. It
>> could use the bus failure mechanism to trigger the currently hotplug
>> procedure of user space. After that, vfio kernel module will detect the
>> device disappear, and then release the kernel resource of the device.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Guo <jia.guo at intel.com>
>> ---
>
> <snip>
>
>> + * resources before resources be released in kernel, so it can
>> directly
>> + * call the bus failure handler to use the specific mechanism in
>> + * user space to handle it.
>> + */
>> + ret = bus->memory_failure_handler(device);
>> + if (ret) {
>> + RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Can not handle failure for "
>> + "device (%s)\n", device->name);
>> + return;
>
> Return is not needed here :)
>
> Otherwise, LGTM
>
yes, will modify it.
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