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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Improve the current FLR logic

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:43:49 +0800
"Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Yuji,
> Thanks for your advice!
> To restore the values of the PCIe registers to the original values the
> firmware (and Dom0?) configues, we need to store the original values
> somewhere. 
> Maybe we can restore the info into xenstore?

Hi Cui,
Xenstore is OK, but pciback is better place, I think.
Because device driver should configure devices.
If we do it in pciback, the coding might be difficult. But the
whole architecture will be simple.

I think the following saving/restoring timing is good.
  - saving    : after pciback bind device
  - restoring : after xend writes SBDF into xenstore
                before pciback removes backend device

>> What do you think about following method?
>> 
>>      1. create the table, and fill offset, size, etc. of registers to
>>         save/restore into the table.
>> 
>>      2. save/restore registers based on the table.
> This sounds nice.
> Where should we store the table?

I don't think device specific tables are required.
So we only have to create one table.
xend (or pciback if you implement saving/restoring in pciback) is good
place, I think.

Thanks.

--
Yuji Shimada

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