netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device

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Date:   Tue, 27 Feb 2018 23:23:35 +0200
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org,
        "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        "Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        Siwei Liu <loseweigh@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a
 passthru device

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 01:16:21PM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> The other thing I am looking at is trying to find a good way to do
> dirty page tracking in the hypervisor using something like a
> para-virtual IOMMU. However I don't have any ETA on that as I am just
> starting out and have limited development time. If we get that in
> place we can leave the VF in the guest until the very last moments
> instead of having to remove it before we start the live migration.
> 
> - Alex

I actually think your old RFC would be a good starting point:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/5/104

What is missing is I think enabling/disabling dynamically.

Seems to be easier than tracking by the hypervisor.

-- 
MST