Re: [PATCH V2 mlx5-next 0/4] Improve mlx5 live migration driver

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On Tue, 10 May 2022 16:16:16 +0300
Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 12:02:02PM +0300, Yishai Hadas wrote:
> > This series improves mlx5 live migration driver in few aspects as of
> > below.
> > 
> > Refactor to enable running migration commands in parallel over the PF
> > command interface.
> > 
> > To achieve that we exposed from mlx5_core an API to let the VF be
> > notified before that the PF command interface goes down/up. (e.g. PF
> > reload upon health recovery).
> > 
> > Once having the above functionality in place mlx5 vfio doesn't need any
> > more to obtain the global PF lock upon using the command interface but
> > can rely on the above mechanism to be in sync with the PF.
> > 
> > This can enable parallel VFs migration over the PF command interface
> > from kernel driver point of view.
> > 
> > In addition,
> > Moved to use the PF async command mode for the SAVE state command.
> > This enables returning earlier to user space upon issuing successfully
> > the command and improve latency by let things run in parallel.
> > 
> > Alex, as this series touches mlx5_core we may need to send this in a
> > pull request format to VFIO to avoid conflicts before acceptance.  
> 
> The PR was sent.
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220510131236.1039430-1-leon@xxxxxxxxxx/T/#u

For patches 2-4, please add:

Reviewed-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Alex




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