From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55795) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpF3S-0003lF-8H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 08:33:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpF3M-0008GF-Hc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 08:33:14 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:47087) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpF3M-0008G4-Dd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 08:33:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:32:52 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20151022123252.GA19940@redhat.com> References: <1445445464-5056-1-git-send-email-tianyu.lan@intel.com> <1445455227.4059.867.camel@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1445455227.4059.867.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC Patch 00/12] IXGBE: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alex Williamson Cc: emil.s.tantilov@intel.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jesse Brandeburg , carolyn.wyborny@intel.com, "Skidmore, Donald C" , agraf@suse.de, matthew.vick@intel.com, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, Jeff Kirsher , yang.z.zhang@intel.com, Or Gerlitz , Mitch Williams , nrupal.jani@intel.com, bhelgaas@google.com, Lan Tianyu , Linux Netdev List , Shannon Nelson , eddie.dong@intel.com, Linux Kernel , john.ronciak@intel.com, Paolo Bonzini 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