Re: PCI resource allocation mismatch with BIOS

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On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 08:46:46AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Maybe the elephant in the room is why it's apparently such common
> practice to need to perform a hard reset these devices outside of
> virtualization scenarios...

These GPUs are used as accelerators in cloud environments.

They're reset to a pristine state when handed out to another tenant
to avoid info leaks from the previous tenant.

That should be a legitimate usage of PCIe reset, no?

Thanks,

Lukas



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