Sorry about that. I'll pay attention to them next time and thank you for pointing them out :) On Sat, Dec 07, 2019 at 07:13:30AM +0800, Eric Blake wrote: > 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 >
