From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755338AbbKYDbe (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:31:34 -0500 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:32462 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754679AbbKYDbc (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Nov 2015 22:31:32 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.20,341,1444719600"; d="scan'208";a="846547843" Message-ID: <56552888.90108@intel.com> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:18:32 +0800 From: Lan Tianyu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Duyck , a.motakis@virtualopensystems.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, b.reynal@virtualopensystems.com, bhelgaas@google.com, carolyn.wyborny@intel.com, donald.c.skidmore@intel.com, eddie.dong@intel.com, nrupal.jani@intel.com, agraf@suse.de, kvm@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, emil.s.tantilov@intel.com, gerlitz.or@gmail.com, mark.d.rustad@intel.com, mst@redhat.com, eric.auger@linaro.org, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, matthew.vick@intel.com, mitch.a.williams@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, shannon.nelson@intel.com, weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com, zajec5@gmail.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 0/3] IXGBE/VFIO: Add live migration support for SRIOV NIC References: <1448372298-28386-1-git-send-email-tianyu.lan@intel.com> <5654722D.4010409@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5654722D.4010409@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2015年11月24日 22:20, Alexander Duyck wrote: > I'm still not a fan of this approach. I really feel like this is > something that should be resolved by extending the existing PCI hot-plug > rather than trying to instrument this per driver. Then you will get the > goodness for multiple drivers and multiple OSes instead of just one. An > added advantage to dealing with this in the PCI hot-plug environment > would be that you could then still do a hot-plug even if the guest > didn't load a driver for the VF since you would be working with the PCI > slot instead of the device itself. > > - Alex Hi Alex: What's you mentioned seems the bonding driver solution. Paper "Live Migration with Pass-through Device for Linux VM" describes it. It does VF hotplug during migration. In order to maintain Network connection when VF is out, it takes advantage of Linux bonding driver to switch between VF NIC and emulated NIC. But the side affects, that requires VM to do additional configure and the performance during switching two NIC is not good. -- Best regards Tianyu Lan