On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 00:34:42 CET Mike Belopuhov wrote: > Yes, after looking closer at virtio code I agree with you. > However, stop/init is purely OpenBSD specific action. There > are no provisions or requirements from the hardware really. > Thus we can treat UP/DOWN as purely software state and don't > stop/reinit the PCI device.
I guess we could do that. But then we cannot free the mbufs on DOWN until the device has used them. That sounds like an unnecessary waste of memory to me.