From patchwork Thu Dec 13 01:10:14 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Xiao Wang X-Patchwork-Id: 48726 X-Patchwork-Delegate: maxime.coquelin@redhat.com Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B0B1B461; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 02:23:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 470541B454 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2018 02:23:37 +0100 (CET) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga008.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.65]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 12 Dec 2018 17:23:36 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.56,346,1539673200"; d="scan'208";a="101112948" Received: from dpdk-xiao-1.sh.intel.com ([10.67.111.145]) by orsmga008.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2018 17:23:34 -0800 From: Xiao Wang To: alejandro.lucero@netronome.com, tiwei.bie@intel.com Cc: maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, dev@dpdk.org, zhihong.wang@intel.com, xiaolong.ye@intel.com, Xiao Wang Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:10:14 +0800 Message-Id: <20181213011014.110089-10-xiao.w.wang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.15.1 In-Reply-To: <20181213011014.110089-1-xiao.w.wang@intel.com> References: <20181128094607.106173-3-xiao.w.wang@intel.com> <20181213011014.110089-1-xiao.w.wang@intel.com> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 9/9] doc: update ifc NIC document X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" Signed-off-by: Xiao Wang --- v2: * Add release note. --- doc/guides/nics/ifc.rst | 7 +++++++ doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/ifc.rst b/doc/guides/nics/ifc.rst index 48f9adf1d..858f35f74 100644 --- a/doc/guides/nics/ifc.rst +++ b/doc/guides/nics/ifc.rst @@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ the driver probe a new container is created for this device, with this container vDPA driver can program DMA remapping table with the VM's memory region information. +The device argument "swlm=1" will configure the driver into SW assisted live +migration mode. In this mode, the driver will set up a SW relay thread when LM +happens, this thread will help device to log dirty pages. Thus this mode does +not require HW to implement a dirty page logging function block, but will +consume some percentage of CPU resource depending on the network throughput. + Key IFCVF vDPA driver ops ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -70,6 +76,7 @@ Features Features of the IFCVF driver are: - Compatibility with virtio 0.95 and 1.0. +- SW assisted vDPA live migration. Prerequisites diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst index a94fa86a7..ea3909631 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_02.rst @@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* **Add support for SW-assisted VDPA live migration.** + This SW-assisted VDPA live migration facility helps VDPA devices without + logging capability to perform live migration, a mediate SW relay can help + devices to track dirty pages caused by DMA. IFC driver has enabled this + SW-assisted live migration mode. Removed Items -------------