On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 02:06:19PM +0200, sebastien.boeuf at intel.com
wrote:> From: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf at intel.com>
>
> This series introduces a new operation for vdpa devices. It allows them
> to be resumed after they have been suspended. A new feature bit is
> introduced for devices to advertise their ability to be resumed after
> they have been suspended. This feature bit is different from the one
> advertising the ability to be suspended, meaning a device that can be
> suspended might not have the ability to be resumed.
>
> Even if it is already possible to restore a device that has been
> suspended, which is very convenient for live migrating virtual machines,
> there is a major drawback as the device must be fully reset. There is no
> way to resume a device that has been suspended without having to
> configure the device again and without having to recreate the IOMMU
> mappings. This new operation aims at filling this gap by allowing the
> device to resume processing the virtqueue descriptors without having to
> reset it. This is particularly useful for performing virtual machine
> offline migration, also called snapshot/restore, as it allows a virtual
> machine to resume to a running state after it was paused and a snapshot
> of the entire system was taken.
>
> Sebastien Boeuf (4):
> vdpa: Add resume operation
> vhost-vdpa: Introduce RESUME backend feature bit
> vhost-vdpa: uAPI to resume the device
> vdpa_sim: Implement resume vdpa op
>
> drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/vhost/vdpa.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> include/linux/vdpa.h | 6 +++++-
> include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 8 ++++++++
> include/uapi/linux/vhost_types.h | 2 ++
> 5 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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