On Saturday, September 27, 2008 7:38 pm Sheng Yang wrote: > The FLR mechanism enables software to quiesce and reset Endpoint hardware > with Function-level granularity. > > Current the usage model for VT-d support in KVM. We'd better to do FLR > before assigning device to the guest. > > This can also be used with other purpose. Please refer to PCI Express spec > chapter 6.6.2. > > The patch contain two functions. pcie_reset_function() is the common one to > be called, contain some action to quiesce device. > pcie_execute_reset_function() just execute Function Level Reset. > > Updated the patch according to Matthew Wilcox's comments, and reduce the > retry time to 1s according to Yu's comment. > > Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> Matthew? How does this latest version look? Thanks, Jesse -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
