Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] vfio/hisilicon: add ACC live migration driver

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Mon Feb 21 2022 - 19:49:52 EST


On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 11:40:35AM +0000, Shameer Kolothum wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This series attempts to add vfio live migration support for
> HiSilicon ACC VF devices based on the new v2 migration protocol
> definition and mlx5 v8 series discussed here[0].
>
> RFCv4 --> v5
> - Dropped RFC tag as v2 migration APIs are more stable now.
> - Addressed review comments from Jason and Alex (Thanks!).
>
> This is sanity tested on a HiSilicon platform using the Qemu branch
> provided here[1].
>
> Please take a look and let me know your feedback.
>
> Thanks,
> Shameer
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20220220095716.153757-1-yishaih@xxxxxxxxxx/
> [1] https://github.com/jgunthorpe/qemu/commits/vfio_migration_v2
>
>
> v3 --> RFCv4
> -Based on migration v2 protocol and mlx5 v7 series.
> -Added RFC tag again as migration v2 protocol is still under discussion.
> -Added new patch #6 to retrieve the PF QM data.
> -PRE_COPY compatibility check is now done after the migration data
>  transfer. This is not ideal and needs discussion.

Alex, do you want to keep the PRE_COPY in just for acc for now? Or do
you think this is not a good temporary use for it?

We have some work toward doing the compatability more generally, but I
think it will be a while before that is all settled.

Jason