By default VFIO migration is set to auto, which will support live migration if the migration capability is set *and* also dirty page tracking is supported.
For testing purposes one can force enable without dirty page tracking via enable-migration=on, but that option is generally left for testing purposes. So starting with IOMMU dirty tracking it can use to acomodate the lack of VF dirty page tracking allowing us to minimize the VF requirements for migration and thus enabling migration by default for those. Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <joao.m.mart...@oracle.com> --- hw/vfio/migration.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/vfio/migration.c b/hw/vfio/migration.c index 34d4be2ce1b1..89195928666f 100644 --- a/hw/vfio/migration.c +++ b/hw/vfio/migration.c @@ -1012,6 +1012,7 @@ void vfio_reset_bytes_transferred(void) */ bool vfio_migration_realize(VFIODevice *vbasedev, Error **errp) { + HostIOMMUDeviceClass *hiodc = HOST_IOMMU_DEVICE_GET_CLASS(vbasedev->hiod); Error *err = NULL; int ret; @@ -1036,7 +1037,10 @@ bool vfio_migration_realize(VFIODevice *vbasedev, Error **errp) return !vfio_block_migration(vbasedev, err, errp); } - if (!vbasedev->dirty_pages_supported) { + if (!vbasedev->dirty_pages_supported && + (vbasedev->iommufd && + !hiodc->get_cap(vbasedev->hiod, + HOST_IOMMU_DEVICE_CAP_DIRTY_TRACKING, NULL))) { if (vbasedev->enable_migration == ON_OFF_AUTO_AUTO) { error_setg(&err, "%s: VFIO device doesn't support device dirty tracking", -- 2.17.2