Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH 0/5] virtio: introduce SUSPEND bit and vq state

["Zhu, Lingshan" <lingshan.zhu@intel.com>]

On 9/14/2023 7:14 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 04:16:32PM +0800, Zhu Lingshan wrote:
> > This series introduces
> > 1)a new SUSPEND bit in the device status
> > Which is used to suspend the device, so that the device states
> > and virtqueue states are stabilized.
> >
> > 2)virtqueue state and its accessor, to get and set last_avail_idx
> > and last_used_idx of virtqueues.
> >
> > The main usecase of these new facilities is Live Migration.
> >
> > Future work: dirty page tracking and in-flight descriptors.
> > This series addresses many comments from Jason, Stefan and Eugenio
> > from RFC series.
> Compared to Parav's patchset this is much less functional.
we will add dirty page tracking and in-flight IO tracker in V2, then it
will be a full featured LM solution.

They are not in this series because we want this series to be small and 
focus.
> Assuming that one goes in, can't we add ability to submit
> admin commands through MMIO on the device itself and be done with it?
I am not sure, IMHO, if we use admin vq as back-ends for MMIO based live 
migration,
then the issues in admin vq still exist, for example:
1)nested virtualization
2)bare-metal live migration
3)QOS
4)introduce more attacking surfaces.

And what's more, if we wants to implementing a new capability onbehalf 
of admin vq,
does the capability need to store at least one descriptor buffer, that 
is the
capability length should be at least the max_lengh_of_buffer?

If that is not possible, do we need to implement extra fields like 
length and remaining_length,
then the device repeating update the cap data, and the driver repeat 
reading, way to complex
and introduce significant downtime.


> > Zhu Lingshan (5):
> >    virtio: introduce vq state as basic facility
> >    virtio: introduce SUSPEND bit in device status
> >    virtqueue: constraints for virtqueue state
> >    virtqueue: ignore resetting vqs when SUSPEND
> >    virtio-pci: implement VIRTIO_F_QUEUE_STATE
> >
> >   content.tex       | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >   transport-pci.tex |  18 +++++++
> >   2 files changed, 136 insertions(+)
> >
> > --
> > 2.35.3
>
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