Re: [RFC 00/18] Pkernfs: Support persistence for live update

2024-02-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 02:56:33PM +, Gowans, James wrote: > 2. Tell VFIO to avoid mapping the memory in again after live update > because it already exists. > https://github.com/jgowans/qemu/commit/6e4f17f703eaf2a6f1e4cb2576d61683eaee02b0 > (the above flag should only be set *after* live

Re: [RFC 00/18] Pkernfs: Support persistence for live update

2024-02-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 02:45:42PM +, Gowans, James wrote: > Hi Jason, > > Thanks for this great feedback on the approach - it's exactly the sort > of thing we were looking for. > > On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 13:42 -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:01:45PM +,

Re: [RFC 00/18] Pkernfs: Support persistence for live update

2024-02-07 Thread Gowans, James
On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 10:10 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > * Needing to drive and re-hydrate the IOMMU page tables by defining > > an IOMMU file. > > Really we should move the abstraction one level up and make the > > whole VFIO > > container persistent via a pkernfs file. That way you’d "just"

Re: [RFC 00/18] Pkernfs: Support persistence for live update

2024-02-07 Thread Gowans, James
Hi Jason, Thanks for this great feedback on the approach - it's exactly the sort of thing we were looking for. On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 13:42 -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:01:45PM +, James Gowans wrote: > > > The main aspect we’re looking for feedback/opinions

Re: [PATCH kexec-tools] workflow: update to use checkout@v4

2024-02-07 Thread Simon Horman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 09:55:41AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote: > Update to use checkout@v4. > > This addresses the following warning that appears in GitHub runs: > > "Node.js 16 actions are deprecated. Please update the following actions > to use Node.js 20: actions/checkout@v3. For more