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From: "Lan, Tianyu" <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: aik@ozlabs.ru, amit.shah@redhat.com, anthony@codemonkey.ws,
	ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, blauwirbel@gmail.com,
	cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, eddie.dong@intel.com,
	nrupal.jani@intel.com, agraf@suse.de, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	emil.s.tantilov@intel.com, gerlitz.or@gmail.com,
	donald.c.skidmore@intel.com, mark.d.rustad@intel.com,
	mst@redhat.com, kraxel@redhat.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com,
	quintela@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 09/10] Qemu/VFIO: Add SRIOV VF migration support
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 16:56:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <566003B0.7030406@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449095113.15753.145.camel@redhat.com>



On 12/3/2015 6:25 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 21:35 +0800, Lan Tianyu wrote:
>> This patch is to add SRIOV VF migration support.
>> Create new device type "vfio-sriov" and add faked PCI migration capability
>> to the type device.
>>
>> The purpose of the new capability
>> 1) sync migration status with VF driver in the VM
>> 2) Get mailbox irq vector to notify VF driver during migration.
>> 3) Provide a way to control injecting irq or not.
>>
>> Qemu will migrate PCI configure space regs and MSIX config for VF.
>> Inject mailbox irq at last stage of migration to notify VF about
>> migration event and wait VF driver ready for migration. VF driver
>> writeS PCI config reg PCI_VF_MIGRATION_VF_STATUS in the new cap table
>> to tell Qemu.
>
> What makes this sr-iov specific?  Why wouldn't we simply extend vfio-pci
> with a migration=on feature?  Thanks,

Sounds reasonable and will update it.

>
> Alex
>

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-03  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-24 13:35 [RFC PATCH V2 00/10] Qemu: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC Lan Tianyu
2015-11-24 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH V2 01/10] Qemu/VFIO: Create head file pci.h to share data struct Lan Tianyu
2015-11-24 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH V2 02/10] Qemu/VFIO: Add new VFIO_GET_PCI_CAP_INFO ioctl cmd definition Lan Tianyu
2015-12-02 22:25   ` Alex Williamson
2015-12-03  8:40     ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-03 15:26       ` Alex Williamson
2015-11-24 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH V2 03/10] Qemu/VFIO: Rework vfio_std_cap_max_size() function Lan Tianyu
2015-11-24 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH V2 04/10] Qemu/VFIO: Add vfio_find_free_cfg_reg() to find free PCI config space regs Lan Tianyu
2015-11-24 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH V2 05/10] Qemu/VFIO: Expose PCI config space read/write and msix functions Lan Tianyu
2015-11-24 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH V2 06/10] Qemu/PCI: Add macros for faked PCI migration capability Lan Tianyu
2015-12-02 22:25   ` Alex Williamson
2015-12-03  8:57     ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-11-24 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH V2 07/10] Qemu: Add post_load_state() to run after restoring CPU state Lan Tianyu
2015-11-24 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH V2 08/10] Qemu: Add save_before_stop callback to run just before stopping VCPU during migration Lan Tianyu
2015-11-24 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH V2 09/10] Qemu/VFIO: Add SRIOV VF migration support Lan Tianyu
2015-11-24 21:03   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-25 15:32     ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-11-25 15:44       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-02 22:25   ` Alex Williamson
2015-12-03  8:56     ` Lan, Tianyu [this message]
2015-11-24 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH V2 10/10] Qemu/VFIO: Misc change for enable migration with VFIO Lan Tianyu
2015-11-30  8:01 ` [RFC PATCH V2 00/10] Qemu: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-01  6:26   ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-01 15:02     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-02 14:08       ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-02 14:31         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-03 14:53           ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-04  6:42           ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-04  8:05             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-04 12:11               ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-03 18:32         ` Alexander Duyck
2015-12-07 16:50 ` live migration vs device assignment (was Re: [RFC PATCH V2 00/10] Qemu: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC) Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-09 16:26   ` live migration vs device assignment (motivation) Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-09 17:14     ` Alexander Duyck
2015-12-10  3:15       ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-09 20:07     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-10  3:04       ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-10  8:38         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-10 14:23           ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-10 10:18     ` [Qemu-devel] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-12-10 11:28       ` Yang Zhang
2015-12-10 11:41         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-12-10 13:07           ` Yang Zhang
2015-12-10 14:38           ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-10 16:11             ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-10 19:17               ` Alexander Duyck
2015-12-11  7:32               ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-14  9:12                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-10 16:23             ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-12-10 17:16             ` Alexander Duyck
2015-12-13 15:47               ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-13 19:30                 ` Alexander Duyck
2015-12-25  7:03                   ` Lan Tianyu
2015-12-25 12:11                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-28 17:42                       ` Lan, Tianyu
2015-12-29 16:46                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-29 17:04                           ` Alexander Duyck
2015-12-29 17:15                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-29 18:04                               ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Duyck
2016-01-04  2:15                           ` Lan Tianyu
2015-12-25 22:31                     ` Alexander Duyck
2015-12-27  9:21                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-27 21:45                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Duyck
2015-12-28  8:51                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-28  3:20                       ` Dong, Eddie
2015-12-28  4:26                         ` Alexander Duyck
2015-12-28 11:50                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-14  9:26                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-12-28  8:52                   ` Pavel Fedin
2015-12-28 11:51                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-03-17  9:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH V2 00/10] Qemu: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC Wei Yang

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