Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Virtio-9p live migration patchset

["Benoît Canet" <benoit.canet@irqsave.net>]

The Tuesday 30 Sep 2014 à 22:08:12 (+0300), Boris Sukholitko wrote :
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Benoît Canet <benoit.canet@irqsave.net> wrote:
> > The Friday 26 Sep 2014 à 18:19:55 (+0300), Boris Sukholitko wrote :
> >> This patchset is a small rebase of the 9p live migration patches made a year
> >> ago by Benoit Canet.
> >>
> >> See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-04/msg02190.html
> >> for the previous thread.
> >>
> >> I took the liberty to drop the second patch (waiting for completion of 9p
> >> operations) as it wasn't working in my testing.
> >
> > It's probable that the second patch has bitrot but I remember I was asked to
> > write it for a meaningfull reason.
> 
> AFAICT, the reason was to drain requests queue before saving the state.
> 
> Unfortunately, releasing BQL haven't led to the callbacks being executed.
> Therefore deadlock ensued.
> 
> > Maybe you should give it a bit more love to resurect it properly.
> >
> 
> I probably should. Still, IMHO, the two patches work good enough
> to deserve merging on their own right :)

I am afraid nobody will want to merge a patchset where there is a
theorical potential bug.

It should work as well on paper as on silicon.

Best regards

Benoît

> 
> Thanks,
> Boris.
> 
> > Best regards
> >
> > Benoît
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Boris.
> >>
> >> Boris Sukholitko (2):
> >>   virtio-9p: Add support for 9p migration.
> >>   virtio-9p: Remove migration blockers.
> >>
> >>  hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>  hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.c        |  24 -------
> >>  hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.h        |   2 -
> >>  3 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.0.2
> >>
> >>
>