[LSF/MM/BFP ATTEND][LSF/MM/BFP TOPIC] BoF: NVMe VFIO Live Migration

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at nvidia.com
Thu Feb 9 11:26:13 PST 2023


On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 02:13:38AM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since I've conducted NVMe VFIO Live Migration talk at SNIA SDC 2022 [1],
> there has been significant development in this area in the NVMe TWG and
> on the mailing list with RFC kernel implementation posted by Intel [2].
> 
> Although RFC implementation is far from the actual implementation since
> there is no support for the standards for NVMe Live Migration
> commands, it did bring up some interesting points about how the
> kernel implementation would look like especially between VFIO and NVMe
> subsystem.
> 
> I'd like to propose a BoF session for NVMe Live Migration and
> discuss what are the kernel side implementation issues we need to 
> address apart from the discussion we had on [2].

Sounds like a good opportunity to discuss the Linux side of this
implementation.

By LSF/MM we should be quite far along alot of the migration ecosystem
work in kernel/qemu/libvirt/etc

Thanks,
Jason



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