From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
Cc: cjia@nvidia.com, aik@ozlabs.ru, Zhengxiao.zx@alibaba-inc.com,
shuangtai.tst@alibaba-inc.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
peterx@redhat.com, eauger@redhat.com, yi.l.liu@intel.com,
quintela@redhat.com, ziye.yang@intel.com, armbru@redhat.com,
mlevitsk@redhat.com, pasic@linux.ibm.com, felipe@nutanix.com,
zhi.a.wang@intel.com, kevin.tian@intel.com, yan.y.zhao@intel.com,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
alex.williamson@redhat.com, changpeng.liu@intel.com,
eskultet@redhat.com, Ken.Xue@amd.com,
jonathan.davies@nutanix.com, pbonzini@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v26 05/17] vfio: Add VM state change handler to know state of VM
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:49:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201022174924.418bb30b.cohuck@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <39a59eb5-9a22-4f66-531c-489de9ecdf52@nvidia.com>
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 21:12:58 +0530
Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com> wrote:
> On 10/22/2020 1:21 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > I'm a bit worried though that all that reasoning which flags are set or
> > cleared when is quite complex, and it's easy to make mistakes.
> >
> > Can we model this as a FSM, where an event (running state changes)
> > transitions the device state from one state to another? I (personally)
> > find FSMs easier to comprehend, but I'm not sure whether that change
> > would be too invasive. If others can parse the state changes with that
> > mask/value interface, I won't object to it.
> >
>
> I agree FSM will be easy and for long term may be easy to maintain. But
> at this moment it will be intrusive change. For now we can go ahead with
> this code and later we can change to FSM model, if all agrees on it.
Yes, we can certainly revisit this later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-22 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-22 23:24 [PATCH QEMU v25 00/17] Add migration support for VFIO devices Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 01/17] vfio: Add function to unmap VFIO region Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 02/17] vfio: Add vfio_get_object callback to VFIODeviceOps Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 03/17] vfio: Add save and load functions for VFIO PCI devices Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-23 6:38 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-09-24 22:49 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-21 9:30 ` Zenghui Yu
2020-10-21 19:03 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 04/17] vfio: Add migration region initialization and finalize function Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-24 14:08 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-17 20:14 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 20:20 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-28 9:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-17 20:17 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 05/17] vfio: Add VM state change handler to know state of VM Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-24 15:02 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-29 11:03 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-10-17 20:24 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-20 10:51 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-21 5:33 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-22 7:51 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-22 15:42 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-22 15:49 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2020-09-25 20:20 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-17 20:30 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-17 23:44 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-18 17:43 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-19 17:51 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-20 10:23 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 06/17] vfio: Add migration state change notifier Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 20:20 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-17 20:35 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-19 17:57 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-20 10:55 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 07/17] vfio: Register SaveVMHandlers for VFIO device Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-24 15:15 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-29 10:19 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-10-17 20:36 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 11:53 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-18 20:55 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-20 15:51 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-25 20:20 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-18 17:40 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 08/17] vfio: Add save state functions to SaveVMHandlers Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-23 11:42 ` Wang, Zhi A
2020-10-21 14:30 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 21:02 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-18 18:00 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 09/17] vfio: Add load " Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-01 10:07 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-10-18 20:47 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-20 16:25 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 10/17] memory: Set DIRTY_MEMORY_MIGRATION when IOMMU is enabled Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 11/17] vfio: Get migration capability flags for container Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 12/17] vfio: Add function to start and stop dirty pages tracking Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 21:55 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-18 20:52 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 13/17] vfio: create mapped iova list when vIOMMU is enabled Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 22:23 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-19 6:01 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-19 17:24 ` Alex Williamson
2020-10-19 19:15 ` Kirti Wankhede
2020-10-19 20:07 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 14/17] vfio: Add vfio_listener_log_sync to mark dirty pages Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 15/17] vfio: Add ioctl to get dirty pages bitmap during dma unmap Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 16/17] vfio: Make vfio-pci device migration capable Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-25 12:17 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-09-22 23:24 ` [PATCH v26 17/17] qapi: Add VFIO devices migration stats in Migration stats Kirti Wankhede
2020-09-24 15:14 ` Eric Blake
2020-09-25 22:55 ` Alex Williamson
2020-09-29 10:40 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2020-09-23 7:06 ` [PATCH QEMU v25 00/17] Add migration support for VFIO devices Zenghui Yu
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