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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>,
	emil.s.tantilov@intel.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
	carolyn.wyborny@intel.com, "Skidmore,
	Donald C" <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>,
	agraf@suse.de, matthew.vick@intel.com,
	intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>,
	yang.z.zhang@intel.com,
	Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>,
	nrupal.jani@intel.com, bhelgaas@google.com,
	Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>,
	eddie.dong@intel.com, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	john.ronciak@intel.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC Patch 00/12] IXGBE: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:32:52 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151022123252.GA19940@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445455227.4059.867.camel@redhat.com>

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 01:20:27PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> The trouble here is that the VF needs to be unplugged prior to the start
> of migration because we can't do effective dirty page tracking while the
> device is connected and doing DMA.

That's exactly what patch 12/12 is trying to accomplish.

I do see some problems with it, but I also suggested some solutions.

-- 
MST

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-22 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-21 16:37 [RFC Patch 00/12] IXGBE: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC Lan Tianyu
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 01/12] PCI: Add virtfn_index for struct pci_device Lan Tianyu
2015-10-21 18:07   ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-24 14:46     ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 02/12] IXGBE: Add new mail box event to restore VF status in the PF driver Lan Tianyu
2015-10-21 20:34   ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 03/12] IXGBE: Add sysfs interface for Qemu to migrate " Lan Tianyu
2015-10-21 20:45   ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-25  7:21     ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 04/12] IXGBE: Add ixgbe_ping_vf() to notify a specified VF via mailbox msg Lan Tianyu
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 05/12] IXGBE: Add new sysfs interface of "notify_vf" Lan Tianyu
2015-10-21 20:52   ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-22 12:51     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-24 15:43     ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-10-25  6:03       ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-25  6:45         ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 06/12] IXGBEVF: Add self emulation layer Lan Tianyu
2015-10-21 20:58   ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-22 12:50     ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-22 15:50       ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 07/12] IXGBEVF: Add new mail box event for migration Lan Tianyu
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 08/12] IXGBEVF: Rework code of finding the end transmit desc of package Lan Tianyu
2015-10-21 21:14   ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-24 16:12     ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-10-22 12:58   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-24 16:08     ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 09/12] IXGBEVF: Add live migration support for VF driver Lan Tianyu
2015-10-21 21:48   ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-22 12:46   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 10/12] IXGBEVF: Add lock to protect tx/rx ring operation Lan Tianyu
2015-10-21 21:55   ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-22 12:40   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 11/12] IXGBEVF: Migrate VF statistic data Lan Tianyu
2015-10-22 12:36   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-21 16:37 ` [RFC Patch 12/12] IXGBEVF: Track dma dirty pages Lan Tianyu
2015-10-22 12:30   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-21 18:45 ` [RFC Patch 00/12] IXGBE: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC Or Gerlitz
2015-10-21 19:20   ` Alex Williamson
2015-10-21 23:26     ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-22 12:32     ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2015-10-22 13:01       ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2015-10-22 13:06         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-22 15:58     ` Or Gerlitz
2015-10-22 16:17       ` Alex Williamson
2015-10-22 12:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-23 18:36 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-23 19:05   ` Alex Williamson
2015-10-23 20:01     ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-26  5:36   ` Lan Tianyu
2015-10-26 15:03     ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-29  6:12       ` Lan Tianyu
2015-10-29  6:58         ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-29  8:33           ` Lan Tianyu
2015-10-29 16:17             ` Alexander Duyck
2015-10-30  2:41               ` Lan Tianyu
2015-10-30 18:04                 ` Alexander Duyck

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