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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/interop/vhost-user.txt | 10 |
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diff --git a/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt b/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt index cb3a7595aa..91a572d781 100644 --- a/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt +++ b/docs/interop/vhost-user.txt @@ -290,6 +290,15 @@ Once the source has finished migration, rings will be stopped by the source. No further update must be done before rings are restarted. +In postcopy migration the slave is started before all the memory has been +received from the source host, and care must be taken to avoid accessing pages +that have yet to be received. The slave opens a 'userfault'-fd and registers +the memory with it; this fd is then passed back over to the master. +The master services requests on the userfaultfd for pages that are accessed +and when the page is available it performs WAKE ioctl's on the userfaultfd +to wake the stalled slave. The client indicates support for this via the +VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_PAGEFAULT feature. + Memory access ------------- @@ -369,6 +378,7 @@ Protocol features #define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SLAVE_REQ 5 #define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CROSS_ENDIAN 6 #define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CRYPTO_SESSION 7 +#define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_PAGEFAULT 8 Master message types -------------------- |