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Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio 9p live migration patches
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Benoît Canet |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio 9p live migration patches |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Apr 2013 16:08:10 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
There is still the need to serialize the fid linked list.
I saw in the current code base that virtio-blk.c was using the old API to
serialize a linked list.
Does writing support for serializing linked list in vmstate worth it ?
Or is it better to keep the old API to serialize ?
Regards
Benoît
> Le Thursday 04 Apr 2013 à 15:42:06 (+0200), Paolo Bonzini a écrit :
> Il 04/04/2013 14:37, Benoît Canet ha scritto:
> > We also need to ensure new 9p request are blocked.
>
> Migration runs with the VM paused. It would be simplest to flush all
> the requests before migrating, that's what the block layer does. (The
> migration of requests we have in virtio-blk, scsi-disk etc. is only for
> rerror/werror=stop; it is not invoked in the common case).
>
> Paolo
>