Re: [PATCH v2 00/27] Virtio net failover fixes

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 09:37:21AM +0100, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Hi
> 
> This is a big rework of the network failover setup.  General idea is:
> * We don't cache the name of the primary/standby devices
>   We have several problems there with stale pointers
> * After this:
> - We can always remove either the primary/standby devices without trouble
> - Pluggin/unplugging works
> - We go to device opts to see what the failover device are.
>   Notice that we are plugging/unplugging the device, so it is not critical.
> - Once there, I "fixed" managedsave for libvirt (now gives an error instead o=
> f just hanging)
> * Fields not cached anymore:
> - primary_device_dict
> - primary_device_opts
> - standby_id
> - primary_device_id
> - primary_dev
> * I renamed the should_be_hidden() callback to hide device, but if
>   people preffer the old name I can leave it.
> * Add (some) doc to some functions
> * Remove almost 100 lines of code while fixing things.
> 
> Please review.

OK that's great, any of this appropriate for 5.2?
The memory leak fix maybe?

> Later, Juan.
> 
> Juan Quintela (27):
>   migration: Network Failover can't work with a paused guest
>   failover: fix indentantion
>   failover: Use always atomics for primary_should_be_hidden
>   failover: primary bus is only used once, and where it is set
>   failover: Remove unused parameter
>   failover: Remove external partially_hotplugged property
>   failover: qdev_device_add() returns err or dev set
>   failover: Rename bool to failover_primary_hidden
>   failover: g_strcmp0() knows how to handle NULL
>   failover: Remove primary_device_opts
>   failover: remove standby_id variable
>   failover: Remove primary_device_dict
>   failover: Remove memory leak
>   failover: simplify virtio_net_find_primary()
>   failover: should_be_hidden() should take a bool
>   failover: Rename function to hide_device()
>   failover: virtio_net_connect_failover_devices() does nothing
>   failover: Rename to failover_find_primary_device()
>   failover: simplify qdev_device_add() failover case
>   failover: simplify qdev_device_add()
>   failover: make sure that id always exist
>   failover: remove failover_find_primary_device() error parameter
>   failover: split failover_find_primary_device_id()
>   failover: We don't need to cache primary_device_id anymore
>   failover: Caller of this two functions already have primary_dev
>   failover: simplify failover_unplug_primary
>   failover: Remove primary_dev member
> 
>  include/hw/qdev-core.h         |  28 ++--
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-net.h |   9 +-
>  hw/core/qdev.c                 |  19 +--
>  hw/net/virtio-net.c            | 298 +++++++++++++--------------------
>  migration/migration.c          |  13 ++
>  softmmu/qdev-monitor.c         |  43 ++---
>  6 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 243 deletions(-)
> 
> --=20
> 2.26.2
>