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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, quintela@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com, owasserm@redhat.com, onom@us.ibm.com,
	abali@us.ibm.com, mrhines@us.ibm.com, gokul@us.ibm.com,
	chegu_vinod@hp.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rdma: rename 'x-rdma' => 'rdma'
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 07:25:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52676BF6.7010305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5266DE16.8060508@redhat.com>

Il 22/10/2013 21:20, Eric Blake ha scritto:
>> > -# @x-rdma-pin-all: Controls whether or not the entire VM memory footprint is
>> > +# @rdma-pin-all: Controls whether or not the entire VM memory footprint is
>> >  #          mlock()'d on demand or all at once. Refer to docs/rdma.txt for usage.
>> >  #          Disabled by default. Experimental: may (or may not) be renamed after
>> >  #          further testing is complete. (since 1.6)
> I'd also recommend tweaking this to say 'since 1.7', since the spelling
> 'rdma-pin-all' is new to this release.

I would also leave this as experimental for now.

Basically the point of the "experimental" designation was to ensure that
RDMA protocol changes might not preserve backwards compatibility.  The
capability is a separate thing from the protocol, as it would likely
apply to any migration-over-RDMA implementation

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-23  6:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-22 16:59 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rdma: rename 'x-rdma' => 'rdma' mrhines
2013-10-22 20:20 ` Eric Blake
2013-10-23  6:25   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-10-25 15:03     ` Michael R. Hines
2013-10-25 15:14       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-26  8:45         ` Michael R. Hines
2013-10-26 17:13           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-25 15:00   ` Michael R. Hines

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