Re: Re: [PATCH v8 09/10] vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace

[Yongji Xie]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:50 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 在 2021/6/22 下午3:22, Yongji Xie 写道:
> >> We need fix a way to propagate the error to the userspace.
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> >> E.g if we want to stop the deivce, we will delay the status reset until
> >> we get respose from the userspace?
> >>
> > I didn't get how to delay the status reset. And should it be a DoS
> > that we want to fix if the userspace doesn't give a response forever?
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> You're right. So let's make set_status() can fail first, then propagate
> its failure via VHOST_VDPA_SET_STATUS.
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OK. So we only need to propagate the failure in the vhost-vdpa case, right?

Thanks,
Yongji