On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:16:12AM -0400, Venu Busireddy wrote: > During live migration involving passthrough devices, the guest needs > to know which virtio device will be a fail-over device for a given > passthrough device. > > Extending the virtio specification with a new "Group Identifier" > capability allows qemu to set up the grouping at the time the guest > is created. The "Group Identifier" can be as simple as a number, or an > UUID. The driver can use the group identifier to pair the virtio device > with the passthrough device. The passthrough device can contain the > group identifier in the PCIe bridge to which it is attached. > > Venu Busireddy (1): > Add "Group Identifier" to virtio PCI capabilities. > > content.tex | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
Is this a PCI thing, or can this somehow be used with non-PCI devices? If PCI, we can just add a PCI UUID capability to virtio without need to worry about the spec. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-h...@lists.oasis-open.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
