Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] virtio-net: Add support for USO features

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On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 09:03:24AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 26/07/2024 08.08, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 06:18:20PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 01:31:48AM +0300, Yuri Benditovich wrote:
> > > > USO features of virtio-net device depend on kernel ability
> > > > to support them, for backward compatibility by default the
> > > > features are disabled on 8.0 and earlier.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yuri Benditovich <yuri.benditovich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Melnychecnko <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Looks like this patch broke migration when the VM starts on a host that has
> > > USO supported, to another host that doesn't..
> > 
> > This was always the case with all offloads. The answer at the moment is,
> > don't do this.
> 
> May I ask for my understanding:
> "don't do this" = don't automatically enable/disable virtio features in QEMU
> depending on host kernel features, or "don't do this" = don't try to migrate
> between machines that have different host kernel features?

The later.

> > Long term, we need to start exposing management APIs
> > to discover this, and management has to disable unsupported features.
> 
> Ack, this likely needs some treatments from the libvirt side, too.
> 
>  Thomas



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