netdev - Re: Is fallback vhost_net to qemu for live migrate available？

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Date:	Mon, 2 Sep 2013 11:11:47 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
Cc:	Qin Chuanyu <qinchuanyu@...wei.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>, jasowang@...hat.com,
	KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	qianhuibin@...wei.com,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xen.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	wangfuhai@...wei.com, likunyun@...wei.com, liuyongan@...wei.com,
	liuyingdong@...wei.com
Subject: Re: Is fallback vhost_net to qemu for live migrate available？

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:57:22AM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:45:11PM +0800, Qin Chuanyu wrote:
> > On 2013/8/30 0:08, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > >Hi Qin,
> > 
> > >>By change the memory copy and notify mechanism ，currently virtio-net with
> > >>vhost_net could run on Xen with good performance。
> > >
> > >I think the key in doing this would be to implement a property
> > >ioeventfd and irqfd interface in the driver domain kernel.  Just
> > >hacking vhost_net with Xen specific knowledge would be pretty nasty
> > >IMHO.
> > >
> > Yes, I add a kernel module which persist virtio-net pio_addr and
> > msix address as what kvm module did. Guest wake up vhost thread by
> > adding a hook func in evtchn_interrupt.
> > 
> > >Did you modify the front end driver to do grant table mapping or is
> > >this all being done by mapping the domain's memory?
> > >
> > There is nothing changed in front end driver. Currently I use
> > alloc_vm_area to get address space， and map the domain's memory as
> > what what qemu did.
> > 
> 
> You mean you're using xc_map_foreign_range and friends in the backend to
> map guest memory? That's not very desirable as it violates Xen's
> security model. It would not be too hard to pass grant references
> instead of guest physical memory address IMHO.
> 
> Wei.

It's a start and it should make it fast and work with existing
infrastructure in the host, though.

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MST
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