Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] virtio-net: sleep instead of busy waiting for cvq command

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 04:31:08 -0500

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 05:17:20PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > > In particular, we will also directly break the device.
> > > It's kind of hardening for malicious devices.
> > ATM no amount of hardening can prevent a malicious hypervisor from
> > blocking the guest. Recovering when a hardware device is broken would be
> > nice but I think if we do bother then we should try harder to recover,
> > such as by driving device reset.
> 
> 
> Probably, but as discussed in another thread, it needs co-operation in the
> upper layer (networking core).

To track all state? Yea, maybe. For sure it's doable just in virtio,
but if you can find 1-2 other drivers that do this internally
then factoring this out to net core will likely be accepted.

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