linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 0/4] vfio/hisilicon: add acc live migration driver

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Date:   Wed, 2 Feb 2022 13:03:29 -0400
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>
Cc:     "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        "alex.williamson@...hat.com" <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
        "mgurtovoy@...dia.com" <mgurtovoy@...dia.com>,
        Linuxarm <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
        liulongfang <liulongfang@...wei.com>,
        "Zengtao (B)" <prime.zeng@...ilicon.com>,
        yuzenghui <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>,
        "Wangzhou (B)" <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/4] vfio/hisilicon: add acc live migration driver

On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 04:10:06PM +0000, Shameerali Kolothum Thodi wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:jgg@...dia.com]
> > Sent: 02 February 2022 15:40
> > To: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>
> > Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> > linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org; alex.williamson@...hat.com;
> > mgurtovoy@...dia.com; Linuxarm <linuxarm@...wei.com>; liulongfang
> > <liulongfang@...wei.com>; Zengtao (B) <prime.zeng@...ilicon.com>;
> > yuzenghui <yuzenghui@...wei.com>; Jonathan Cameron
> > <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>; Wangzhou (B) <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>
> > Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/4] vfio/hisilicon: add acc live migration driver
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 02:34:52PM +0000, Shameerali Kolothum Thodi
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > > There are few topics to consider:
> > > >  - Which of the three feature sets (STOP_COPY, P2P and PRECOPY) make
> > > >    sense for this driver?
> > >
> > > I think it will be STOP_COPY only for now. We might have PRECOPY
> > > feature once we have the SMMUv3 HTTU support in future.
> > 
> > HTTU is the dirty tracking feature? To be clear VFIO migration support for
> > PRECOPY has nothing to do with IOMMU based dirty page tracking.
> 
> Yes, it is based on the IOMMU hardware dirty bit management support.
> A RFC was posted sometime back,
> https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20210507103608.39440-1-zhukeqian1@huawei.com/

Yes, I saw that. I was hoping to have a discussion on this soon about
how to integrate that with the iommufd work, which I hope will allow
that series, and the other IOMMU drivers that can support this to be
merged..

Jason