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Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] docs/devel: Add VFIO device migration documentation
From: |
Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] docs/devel: Add VFIO device migration documentation |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:41:21 +0000 |
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Mutt/2.0.5 (2021-01-21) |
* Daniel P. Berrangé (berrange@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:50:09AM +0530, Tarun Gupta wrote:
> > Document interfaces used for VFIO device migration. Added flow of state
> > changes
> > during live migration with VFIO device. Tested by building docs with the new
> > vfio-migration.rst file.
> >
> > v2:
> > - Included the new vfio-migration.rst file in index.rst
> > - Updated dirty page tracking section, also added details about
> > 'pre-copy-dirty-page-tracking' opt-out option.
> > - Incorporated comments around wording of doc.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tarun Gupta <targupta@nvidia.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com>
> > ---
> > MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> > docs/devel/index.rst | 1 +
> > docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst | 135 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 137 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 docs/devel/vfio-migration.rst
>
>
> > +Postcopy
> > +========
> > +
> > +Postcopy migration is not supported for VFIO devices.
>
> What is the problem here and is there any plan for how to address it ?
There's no equivalent to userfaultfd for accesses to RAM made by a
device.
There's some potential for this to be doable with an IOMMU or the like,
but:
a) IOMMUs and devices aren't currently happy at recovering from
failures
b) the fragementation you get during a postcopy probably isn't pretty
when you get to build IOMMU tables.
> Postcopy is essentially the only migration mechanism that can reliably
> complete, so it really should be considered the default approach to
> migration for all mgmt apps wanting to do migration, except in special
> cases. IOW, if we want VFIO migration to be viable, we need postcopy
> support.
There's lots of other things postcopy doesn't work with; so hmm.
Dave
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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RE: [PATCH v2 1/1] docs/devel: Add VFIO device migration documentation, Tian, Kevin, 2021/03/11
Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] docs/devel: Add VFIO device migration documentation, Cornelia Huck, 2021/03/15