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Subject: Re: [virtio-comment] [RFC PATCH] virtio-pci: introduce device state capability
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 12:58:21PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2020/12/18 äå11:16, Jason Wang wrote: > > > > > > > A per-virtqueue stopped state is not enough to stop a device because > > > some devices have global behavior like config change events. It must be > > > possible to completely stop the device to prevent further activity > > > (VIRTIO config space changes, interrupts, etc). > > > > > > Maybe a Device Status register bit can be added for that? > > > > > > I've considered such case, one of the idea is to introduce a new device > > status to achieve which seems more generic. Then we need to define a > > state machine carefully. > > > So I post another RFC to introduce a new device status bit. Please review. Thanks, that sounds good. I will be offline until January 4th and will try to catch up then. Stefan
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