Re: [PATCH RFC 00/10] libxl: new hotplug calling convention

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

Ping!

On 21/12/12 17:59, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> This series implements a new hoplug calling convention for libxl.
> 
> The aim of this new convention is to reduce the blackout phase of 
> migration when using complex hotplug scripts, like iSCSI or other kind 
> of storage backends that might have a non trivial setup time.
> 
> There are some issues that I would like to discuss, the first one is 
> the fact that pdev_path field in libxl_device_disk is no longer used 
> to store a physical path, since diskspec "target" can now contain 
> "random" information to connect a block device.

Does someone has any feedback about this proposed change? Will it be OK
to insert this new field? I guess I will have to use some kind of
backward-compatible mechanism, like:

if (disk->pdev_path)
    disk->target = disk->pdev_path;

So old clients that use pdev_path still work as expected.

> 
> To solve this I would like to introduce a new field in 
> libxl_device_disk called "target", that will be used to store the 
> diskspec target parameter. This can later be copied to pdev_path if 
> using the old hotplug calling convention.
> 
> The second issue is related to iSCSI and iscsiadm, specifically the 
> way to set authentication parameters, which is done with command line 
> parameters or editing files (which each distro seems to place in 
> different locations). I will look into this to see if we can find a 
> suitable solution.
> 
> Thanks for the comments, Roger.
> 
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