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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Lieven <pl@dlh.net>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:00:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF0E988.1040505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3eihbbolj.fsf@trasno.mitica>

On 05/16/2010 11:04 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
>
>>> So, to make the story short: I know what is happening, and I know how to
>>> fix it, just that fix is not trivial.  I just need time.
>>>
>>>        
>> Meanwhile, we have a broken 0.12.4.  Is there a quick'n'dirty
>> workaround that will be forward compatible with the real fix that we
>> can push out?
>>      
> revert the patch.  It almost never happen (being in the middle of one
> IO) while migrating.
>    

If the guest does any work, it will always happen.

>    
>> We've regressed from failing some migrations to failing all migrations.
>>      
> Humm, 0.12.4 ->  0.12.4 should work.  My advise is just revert the patch
> and live with it for another week, what do you think?
>    

A week is fine.  I'm not going to release 0.12.4.1 for the week until 
you fix it, and just changing things in git doesn't help users.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.


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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Lieven <pl@dlh.net>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:00:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF0E988.1040505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3eihbbolj.fsf@trasno.mitica>

On 05/16/2010 11:04 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
>
>>> So, to make the story short: I know what is happening, and I know how to
>>> fix it, just that fix is not trivial.  I just need time.
>>>
>>>        
>> Meanwhile, we have a broken 0.12.4.  Is there a quick'n'dirty
>> workaround that will be forward compatible with the real fix that we
>> can push out?
>>      
> revert the patch.  It almost never happen (being in the middle of one
> IO) while migrating.
>    

If the guest does any work, it will always happen.

>    
>> We've regressed from failing some migrations to failing all migrations.
>>      
> Humm, 0.12.4 ->  0.12.4 should work.  My advise is just revert the patch
> and live with it for another week, what do you think?
>    

A week is fine.  I'm not going to release 0.12.4.1 for the week until 
you fix it, and just changing things in git doesn't help users.

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-17  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-11 10:59 Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken? Peter Lieven
2010-05-11 10:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Lieven
2010-05-11 23:11 ` Juan Quintela
2010-05-11 23:11   ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2010-05-12 13:42   ` Peter Lieven
2010-05-16 12:02   ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-16 12:02     ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-05-16 14:42     ` Juan Quintela
2010-05-16 14:42       ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2010-05-16 14:47       ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-16 14:47         ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-05-16 20:04         ` Juan Quintela
2010-05-16 20:04           ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2010-05-17  7:00           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-05-17  7:00             ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-17  8:23             ` Michael Tokarev
2010-05-17  8:23               ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael Tokarev
2010-05-17  9:07               ` Juan Quintela
2010-05-17  9:07                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2010-05-17  9:11                 ` Michael Tokarev
2010-05-17  9:11                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael Tokarev
2010-05-17  9:38                   ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-17  9:38                     ` Alexander Graf
2010-05-16 18:03       ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-16 18:03         ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2010-05-16 20:06         ` Juan Quintela
2010-05-16 20:06           ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2010-05-17 10:35           ` Jan Kiszka
2010-05-17 10:35             ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2010-06-08  9:54             ` Peter Lieven
2010-06-08  9:54               ` Peter Lieven

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