On 27 July 2017 at 02:30, Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > In particular, Mellanox CX4 adapters on PowerNV hosts might not be fully > quiesced by vfio-pci's finalize() routine until up to 6s after the > DEVICE_DELETED was emitted, leading to detach-device on the libvirt side > pretty > much always crashing the host.
My initial naive thought is that if the host kernel can crash then this is a host kernel bug... shouldn't the host kernel refuse the subsequent libvirt rebind if it would cause a crash ? thanks -- PMM