On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 at 10:38, Albert Esteve <aest...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 12:57 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 at 04:26, Albert Esteve <aest...@redhat.com> wrote:
Thanks for considering my feedback! > There is not. In a first thought, I assumed that the backends will be in > charge > of cleaning their entries from the shared hash table when they are destroyed > (prematurely or no). I will look into occurrences of vhost_dev getting > destroyed > that may need explicit handling of the leftover entries. QEMU supports hot (un)plug of vhost-user devices. vhost-user backends may also crash. QEMU cannot rely solely on the backend to take any cleanup action because a backend may be buggy or misbehave. Stefan