Re: [PATCH 0/4] Expose and manage PCI device reset

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:04:48PM +0530, ameynarkhede03@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Amey Narkhede <ameynarkhede03@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> PCI and PCIe devices may support a number of possible reset mechanisms
> for example Function Level Reset (FLR) provided via Advanced Feature or
> PCIe capabilities, Power Management reset, bus reset, or device specific reset.
> Currently the PCI subsystem creates a policy prioritizing these reset methods
> which provides neither visibility nor control to userspace.
>
> Expose the reset methods available per device to userspace, via sysfs
> and allow an administrative user or device owner to have ability to
> manage per device reset method priorities or exclusions.
> This feature aims to allow greater control of a device for use cases
> as device assignment, where specific device or platform issues may
> interact poorly with a given reset method, and for which device specific
> quirks have not been developed.

Sorry, are we talking about specific devices/flows/applications that
must have this functionality or about theoretical use case?

Thanks