Re: [PATCH 6/7] PCI: Make sure VF's driver get attached after PF's

[Yinghai Lu]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Alexander Duyck
<alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/14/2013 11:44 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Alexander Duyck
>> <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>> I'm sorry, but what is the point of this patch?  With device assignment
>>> it is always possible to have VFs loaded and the PF driver unloaded
>>> since you cannot remove the VFs if they are assigned to a VM.
>> unload PF driver will not call pci_disable_sriov?
>
> You cannot call pci_disable_sriov because you will panic all of the
> guests that have devices assigned.

ixgbe_remove did call pci_disable_sriov...

for guest panic, that is another problem.
just like you pci passthrough with real pci device and hotremove the
card in host.

...

> So how does your patch actually fix this problem?  It seems like it is
> just avoiding it.

yes, until the first one is done.

>
> From what I can tell your problem is originating in pci_call_probe.  I
> believe it is calling work_on_cpu and that doesn't seem correct since
> the work should be taking place on a CPU already local to the PF. You
> might want to look there to see why you are trying to schedule work on a
> CPU which should be perfectly fine for you to already be doing your work on.

it always try to go with local cpu with same pxm.
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