From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: armbru@redhat.com, aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/11] QMP: Asynchronous messages enable/disable support
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:17:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B5C5682.40506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5C5358.2000900@codemonkey.ws>
On 01/24/2010 04:04 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> I agree with that, but we can look at async messages as a baseline
>> protocol capability (thus no negotiation required), and the new
>> command only enabled individual messages.
>
>
> To be honest, I don't think there's really a need to mask individual
> messages. A client can always ignore messages it doesn't care about.
> There is no side effect of receiving a message so there is no
> functional implication of receiving messages you don't care about.
>
> The only time it would matter is if we had a really high volume of
> messages. I'd suggest waiting until a message is introduced that
> could potentially have a high rate and then implement a mechanism to
> mask it. For now, it just adds unnecessary complexity.
Fair enough. But then, why can't all clients do that? Dropping an
async notification is maybe one line of code.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-24 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-21 21:09 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/11]: QMP feature negotiation support Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-21 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] QMP: Initial mode-oriented bits Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-21 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/11] QMP: Introduce 'query-qmp-mode' command Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-21 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/11] QError: Add QMP mode-oriented errors Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-21 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/11] QMP: Introduce qmp_switch_mode command Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-21 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/11] QMP: advertise asynchronous messages Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-21 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/11] QMP: Array-based async messages Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-21 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/11] QError: New QERR_ASYNC_MSG_NOT_FOUND Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-21 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/11] QMP: Asynchronous messages enable/disable support Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-22 18:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-22 20:09 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-22 23:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-25 14:29 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-01-25 14:33 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-25 15:11 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-24 10:34 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-24 11:07 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-01-24 15:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-24 18:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-01-25 11:49 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-25 14:15 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-01-25 14:22 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-24 14:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-24 14:17 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-01-24 14:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-25 12:02 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-24 10:36 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-01-25 13:14 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-21 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/11] Monitor: Introduce find_info_cmd() Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-21 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/11] QError: New QERR_QMP_INVALID_MODE_COMMAND Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-21 21:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/11] QMP: Enable feature negotiation support Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-22 10:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/11]: QMP " Markus Armbruster
2010-01-22 12:09 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-22 14:00 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-01-22 18:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-25 14:33 ` Markus Armbruster
2010-01-26 11:53 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-26 12:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-01-26 13:45 ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-01-26 14:29 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-01-26 15:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-01-26 16:21 ` Luiz Capitulino
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