Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH linux-2.6.18-xen] pciback: clean up (MSI-X vec, entrynr) list when resetting PCI device

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 01.06.11 at 17:27, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Or, as you say above, the guest's generic MSI-X massaging PCI code could 
> be modified.

The host's.

> We didn't want to leave this to the guest, however. It's not that I 
> intentionally try to postpone the cleanup until after the domain has 
> vanished; it's rather the domU can't be expected / trusted to do the 
> cleanup itself in all cases.

When the guest is dead, the host has to take care. As long as the
guest is alive, it ought to be responsible (and the host simply must
not get in the way).

Jan


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