On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 07:19:15PM +0800, Lan, Tianyu wrote: > On 12/9/2015 6:37 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 12:32:00AM +0800, Lan, Tianyu wrote: > >>Hi Michael & Alexander: > >>Thanks a lot for your comments and suggestions. > > > >It's nice that it's appreciated, but you then go on and ignore > >all that I have written here: > >https://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg123826.html > > > > No, I will reply it separately and according your suggestion to snip it into > 3 thread. > > >>We still need to support Windows guest for migration and this is why our > >>patches keep all changes in the driver since it's impossible to change > >>Windows kernel. > > > >This is not a reasonable argument. It makes no sense to duplicate code > >on Linux because you must duplicate code on Windows. Let's assume you > >must do it in the driver on windows because windows has closed source > >drivers. What does it matter? Linux can still do it as part of DMA API > >and have it apply to all drivers. > > > > Sure. Duplicated code should be encapsulated and make it able to reuse > by other drivers. Just like you said the dummy write part. > > I meant the framework should not require to change Windows kernel code > (such as PM core or PCI bus driver)and this will block implementation on > the Windows. I remember reading that it's possible to implement a bus driver on windows if required. But basically I don't see how windows can be relevant to discussing guest driver patches. That discussion probably belongs on the qemu maling list, not on lkml. > I think it's not problem to duplicate code in the Windows drivers. > > >>Following is my idea to do DMA tracking. > >> > >>Inject event to VF driver after memory iterate stage > >>and before stop VCPU and then VF driver marks dirty all > >>using DMA memory. The new allocated pages also need to > >>be marked dirty before stopping VCPU. All dirty memory > >>in this time slot will be migrated until stop-and-copy > >>stage. We also need to make sure to disable VF via clearing the > >>bus master enable bit for VF before migrating these memory. > >> > >>The dma page allocated by VF driver also needs to reserve space > >>to do dummy write. > > > >I suggested ways to do it all in the hypervisor without driver hacks, or > >hide it within DMA API without need to reserve extra space. Both > >approaches seem much cleaner. > > > > This sounds reasonable. We may discuss it detail in the separate thread. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
