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From: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: oss-drivers@corigine.com, Xinying Yu <xinying.yu@corigine.com>,
	Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>,
	Long Wu <long.wu@corigine.com>,
	Peng Zhang <peng.zhang@corigine.com>
Subject: [PATCH 10/10] doc: update nfp document
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:48:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240426074831.1729792-11-chaoyong.he@corigine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240426074831.1729792-1-chaoyong.he@corigine.com>

From: Xinying Yu <xinying.yu@corigine.com>

Add the software assisted vDPA live migration feature
into NFP document.

Signed-off-by: Xinying Yu <xinying.yu@corigine.com>
Reviewed-by: Chaoyong He <chaoyong.he@corigine.com>
Reviewed-by: Long Wu <long.wu@corigine.com>
Reviewed-by: Peng Zhang <peng.zhang@corigine.com>
---
 doc/guides/vdpadevs/nfp.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/nfp.rst b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/nfp.rst
index dc9e94dbc8..e4736d9f61 100644
--- a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/nfp.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/nfp.rst
@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ device will be probed by net/nfp driver and will used as a VF net device.
 
 This PMD uses (common/nfp) code to access the device firmware.
 
+Software Live Migration
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Now the NFP vDPA driver only support software assisted live migration mode.
+In this mode, the driver will setup a software relay thread when live migration
+happens, this thread will help device to log dirty pages. Although this mode
+does not require hardware to implement a dirty page logging function block, it
+will consume percentage of CPU resource depending on the network throughput.
+
 Per-Device Parameters
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-- 
2.39.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-26  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-26  7:48 [PATCH 00/10] support software live migration Chaoyong He
2024-04-26  7:48 ` [PATCH 01/10] mailmap: add new contributor Chaoyong He
2024-04-26  7:48 ` [PATCH 02/10] vdpa/nfp: fix logic in hardware init Chaoyong He
2024-04-26  7:48 ` [PATCH 03/10] vdpa/nfp: fix the logic of reconfiguration Chaoyong He
2024-04-26  7:48 ` [PATCH 04/10] vdpa/nfp: refactor the logic of datapath update Chaoyong He
2024-04-26  7:48 ` [PATCH 05/10] vdpa/nfp: add the live migration logic Chaoyong He
2024-04-26  7:48 ` [PATCH 06/10] vdpa/nfp: add the interrupt logic of vring relay Chaoyong He
2024-04-26  7:48 ` [PATCH 07/10] vdpa/nfp: setup the VF configure Chaoyong He
2024-04-26  7:48 ` [PATCH 08/10] vdpa/nfp: recover the ring index on new host Chaoyong He
2024-04-26  7:48 ` [PATCH 09/10] vdpa/nfp: setup vring relay thread Chaoyong He
2024-04-26  7:48 ` Chaoyong He [this message]
2024-04-26 21:31   ` [PATCH 10/10] doc: update nfp document Patrick Robb

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