From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] i386: Fix interrupt based Async PF enablement
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 10:38:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735vkhw29.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210420173541.24kxarhw75h2rqxa@habkost.net>
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 08:14:30PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>> * Paolo Bonzini (pbonzini@redhat.com) wrote:
>> > On 06/04/21 13:42, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> > > older machine types are still available (I disable it for <= 5.1 but we
>> > > can consider disabling it for 5.2 too). The feature is upstream since
>> > > Linux 5.8, I know that QEMU supports much older kernels but this doesn't
>> > > probably mean that we can't enable new KVM PV features unless all
>> > > supported kernels have it, we'd have to wait many years otherwise.
>> >
>> > Yes, this is a known problem in fact. :( In 6.0 we even support RHEL 7,
>> > though that will go away in 6.1.
>> >
>> > We should take the occasion of dropping RHEL7 to be clearer about which
>> > kernels are supported.
>>
>> It would be nice to be able to define sets of KVM functonality that we
>> can either start given machine types with, or provide a separate switch
>> to limit kvm functionality back to some defined point. We do trip over
>> the same things pretty regularly when accidentally turning on new
>> features.
>
> The same idea can apply to the hyperv=on stuff Vitaly is working
> on. Maybe we should consider making a generic version of the
> s390x FeatGroup code, use it to define convenient sets of KVM and
> hyperv features.
True, the more I look at PV features enablement, the more I think that
we're missing something important in the logic. All machine types we
have are generally suposed to work with the oldest supported kernel so
we should wait many years before enabling some of the new PV features
(KVM or Hyper-V) by default.
This also links to our parallel discussion regarding migration
policies. Currently, we can't enable PV features by default based on
their availability on the host because of migration, the set may differ
on the destination host. What if we introduce (and maybe even switch to
it by default) something like
-migratable opportunistic (stupid name, I know)
which would allow to enable all features supported by the source host
and then somehow checking that the destination host has them all. This
would effectively mean that it is possible to migrate a VM to a
same-or-newer software (both kernel an QEMU) but not the other way
around. This may be a reasonable choice.
--
Vitaly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-21 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-01 15:19 [PATCH 0/2] i386: Fix interrupt based Async PF enablement Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-04-01 15:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] i386: Add 'kvm-asyncpf-int' to kvm_default_props array Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-04-01 15:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] i386: Disable 'kvm-asyncpf-int' feature for machine types <= 5.1 Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-04-01 15:57 ` [PATCH 0/2] i386: Fix interrupt based Async PF enablement Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-06 11:42 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-04-08 12:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-15 19:14 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-04-20 17:35 ` Eduardo Habkost
2021-04-21 8:38 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2021-04-21 8:50 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-04-21 9:23 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-04-21 9:29 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2021-04-21 9:34 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-04-21 9:37 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-04-21 9:48 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
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