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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 10/12] mc: expose tunable parameter for c


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 10/12] mc: expose tunable parameter for checkpointing frequency
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:35:50 -0600
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On 04/04/2014 10:28 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> One thing to be a little careful about if we merge these tunables
> together, is what tunables are allowed to be changed while the migration
> is running.  The 'capabilities' are currently fixed once the migration
> starts, but I know at least some of the tuneables people want to change
> while things are going - and some care is needed with it since (as we
> found with the xbzrle cache size) we get fun due to the use being in
> a different thread.

Possible to solve that by adding an annotation in extended query output
of which tunables are live, and by making the set command reject any
changes for a tunable that is not live if migration is already underway.
 But yes, worth thinking about.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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