From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-io0-f193.google.com ([209.85.223.193]:33519 "EHLO mail-io0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752234AbbJVP67 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:58:59 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1445455227.4059.867.camel@redhat.com> References: <1445445464-5056-1-git-send-email-tianyu.lan@intel.com> <1445455227.4059.867.camel@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:58:58 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC Patch 00/12] IXGBE: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC From: Or Gerlitz To: Alex Williamson Cc: Lan Tianyu , "Michael S. Tsirkin (mst@redhat.com)" , Bjorn Helgaas , carolyn.wyborny@intel.com, "Skidmore, Donald C" , eddie.dong@intel.com, nrupal.jani@intel.com, yang.z.zhang@intel.com, Alexander Graf , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, emil.s.tantilov@intel.com, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, Jeff Kirsher , Jesse Brandeburg , john.ronciak@intel.com, Linux Kernel , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, matthew.vick@intel.com, Mitch Williams , Linux Netdev List , Shannon Nelson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-pci-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > This is why the typical VF agnostic approach here is to using bonding > and fail over to a emulated device during migration, so performance > suffers, but downtime is something acceptable. bonding in the VM isn't a zero touch solution, right? is it really acceptable?