From: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>
To: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfio/pci: Drop debug comentary from x-device-dirty-page-tracking
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:00:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54e1e265-6c18-4ad5-a2e0-384e35965b49@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250311174807.79825-1-joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
On 3/11/25 18:48, Joao Martins wrote:
> The intent behind the x-device-dirty-page-tracking option is twofold:
>
> 1) development/testing in the presence of VFs with VF dirty page tracking
>
> 2) deliberately choosing platform dirty tracker over the VF one.
>
> Item 2) scenario is useful when VF dirty tracker is not as fast as
> IOMMU, or there's some limitations around it (e.g. number of them is
> limited; aggregated address space under tracking is limited),
> efficiency/scalability (e.g. 1 pagetable in IOMMU dirty tracker to scan
> vs N VFs) or just troubleshooting. Given item 2 it is not restricted to
> debugging, hence drop the debug parenthesis from the option description.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Thanks,
C.
> ---
> hw/vfio/pci.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/vfio/pci.c b/hw/vfio/pci.c
> index 64629c13b6fb..3496a0b6b099 100644
> --- a/hw/vfio/pci.c
> +++ b/hw/vfio/pci.c
> @@ -3531,7 +3531,7 @@ static void vfio_pci_dev_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
> object_class_property_set_description(klass, /* 9.1 */
> "x-device-dirty-page-tracking",
> "Disable device dirty page tracking and use "
> - "container-based dirty page tracking (DEBUG)");
> + "container-based dirty page tracking");
> object_class_property_set_description(klass, /* 9.1 */
> "migration-events",
> "Emit VFIO migration QAPI event when a VFIO device "
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2025-03-11 17:48 [PATCH] vfio/pci: Drop debug comentary from x-device-dirty-page-tracking Joao Martins
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