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,
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Donald C" <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>,
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Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>,
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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
next prev 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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