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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	Uri Lublin <uri.lublin@qumranet.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/10] Live migration for QEMU
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:32:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C9480E.7050002@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C945DD.4020304@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes.  The primary reason that hasn't been possible in the past was 
>>> because of how memory was migrated.  The new memory migration 
>>> protocol happens to make it easier to let QEMU and KVM be 
>>> compatible.  That wasn't an accident :-)
>>>
>>
>> Well, it's still broken IMO (migration ram_addr_t rather than 
>> physical addresses).
>
> Have you thought of a solution other than make "mem" only save 
> physical memory and have everything else save their own memory?
>

Even worse, have each slot (0-640K, 1M-pci, 4GB-eom, hotplug slots, 
writeable option roms) be an independent save/restore entity.

> That gets really funky because then everything needs live save/restore 
> tracking.  It's quite messy.

Why? they can all reuse the same code.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	Uri Lublin <uri.lublin@qumranet.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/10] Live migration for QEMU
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:32:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C9480E.7050002@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C945DD.4020304@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes.  The primary reason that hasn't been possible in the past was 
>>> because of how memory was migrated.  The new memory migration 
>>> protocol happens to make it easier to let QEMU and KVM be 
>>> compatible.  That wasn't an accident :-)
>>>
>>
>> Well, it's still broken IMO (migration ram_addr_t rather than 
>> physical addresses).
>
> Have you thought of a solution other than make "mem" only save 
> physical memory and have everything else save their own memory?
>

Even worse, have each slot (0-640K, 1M-pci, 4GB-eom, hotplug slots, 
writeable option roms) be an independent save/restore entity.

> That gets really funky because then everything needs live save/restore 
> tracking.  It's quite messy.

Why? they can all reuse the same code.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-11 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09 19:49 [PATCH 0/10] Live migration for QEMU Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 1/10] Refactor QEMUFile for live migration Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:25   ` Chris Lalancette
2008-09-10 14:38   ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-10 14:38     ` [Qemu-devel] " Glauber Costa
2008-09-10 15:05     ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 15:05       ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 15:16     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 15:16       ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-12 15:40   ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 2/10] Allow the monitor to be suspended during non-blocking op Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10  6:52   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 10:05     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-09-10 10:05       ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-09-10 11:11       ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 11:11         ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 11:14         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-09-10 11:14           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-09-10 15:36           ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 15:36             ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 15:40             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 15:40               ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 15:58         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-10 15:58           ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-11 10:16           ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-11 11:59             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-10 13:07     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:07       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:26     ` Chris Lalancette
2008-09-10 13:26       ` Chris Lalancette
2008-09-10 10:01   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-09-10 13:11     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:11       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 3/10] Add bdrv_flush_all() Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:26   ` Chris Lalancette
2008-09-10 13:26     ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Lalancette
2008-09-10 14:46     ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-10 15:19       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 15:19         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 15:32         ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-10 15:32           ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-10 15:39         ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 15:39           ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 16:37         ` Paul Brook
2008-09-10 16:37           ` Paul Brook
2008-09-12 15:43   ` Blue Swirl
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 4/10] Add dirty tracking for live migration Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 14:52   ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-10 14:56     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 14:56       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 15:01       ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-10 15:01         ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 5/10] Add network announce function Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:27   ` Chris Lalancette
2008-09-10 13:54     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:54       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 14:00     ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 6/10] Introduce v3 of savevm protocol Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10  7:09   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [PATCH 7/10] Switch the memory savevm handler to be "live" Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 22:25   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-09 22:49     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 22:49       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10  7:17   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 13:10     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:10       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:50 ` [PATCH 8/10] Introduce a buffered QEMUFile wrapper Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:50   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-12 15:16   ` Blue Swirl
2008-09-09 19:50 ` [PATCH 9/10] Introduce the UI components for live migration Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:50   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:50 ` [PATCH 10/10] TCP based " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:50   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 16:46   ` Blue Swirl
2008-09-10 16:51     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 16:51       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-11 12:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/10] Live migration for QEMU Atsushi SAKAI
2008-09-11 13:06   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-11 13:30     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-11 14:12       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-11 14:12         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-11 15:32         ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-11 15:32           ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-11 16:22           ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-11 16:22             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-11 16:32             ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-11 16:32               ` Avi Kivity

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