Re: [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf driver

From	"Lan, Tianyu" <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf driver
Date	2015-11-25 17:10 +0100
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On 11/25/2015 8:28 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Frankly, I don't really see what this short term hack buys us,
> and if it goes in, we'll have to maintain it forever.
>

The framework of how to notify VF about migration status won't be
changed regardless of stopping VF or not before doing migration.
We hope to reach agreement on this first. Tracking dirty memory still
need to more discussions and we will continue working on it. Stop VF may
help to work around the issue and make tracking easier.

> Also, assuming you just want to do ifdown/ifup for some reason, it's
> easy enough to do using a guest agent, in a completely generic way.
>

Just ifdown/ifup is not enough for migration. It needs to restore some 
PCI settings before doing ifup on the target machine
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[RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf driver Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> - 2015-11-24 15:00 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf  driver "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-11-24 22:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf driver Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 06:40 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf  driver Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com> - 2015-11-25 07:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf  driver "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-11-25 13:30 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf  driver "Lan, Tianyu" <tianyu.lan@intel.com> - 2015-11-25 17:10 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf  driver "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-11-25 17:30 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf driver Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 17:30 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf  driver "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2015-11-25 17:40 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH V2 3/3] Ixgbevf: Add migration support for ixgbevf driver Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> - 2015-11-25 18:30 +0100

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