On 5/29/19 5:48 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, 21 May 2019 16:47:45 -0400
> Eric Farman <far...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5/21/19 12:32 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>
>>> Why mostly? I'm not sure yet whether we handling multiple requests for
>>> passthrough devices correctly yet (virtual should be fine.)
>>>
>>> Start vs. (start|halt|clear) is fine, as the code checks whether
>>> something is already pending before poking the kernel interface.
>>> Likewise, halt vs. (start|halt|clear) is fine, as the code checks for
>>> halt or clear and start and halt use different regions. The problematic
>>> one is clear, as that's something that's always supposed to go through.
>>> Probably fine if clear should always "win", but I need to think some
>>> more about that.
>>
>> I suspect you are right, because of the check on the halt side, and
>> considering that the clear is the biggest recovery action we have. So
>> this does seem like things are okay. I'll ponder this overnight and
>> finish my review tomorrow.
>
> Ok, what's the verdict here? :)
Gah, I left this sit in my draft folder before holiday. Sorry about that!
>
> (I'm trying to clean up my pending stuff :)
>