From: Changlong Xie <xiecl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Jiang Yunhong <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>,
Dong Eddie <eddie.dong@intel.com>,
xen devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>,
Yang Hongyang <hongyang.yang@easystack.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 03/27] tools/libxl: Add back channel to allow migration target send data back
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:07:25 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EA65BD.50000@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22233.47615.590946.448395@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 03/05/2016 12:38 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Changlong Xie writes ("[PATCH v11 03/27] tools/libxl: Add back channel to allow migration target send data back"):
>> From: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
>>
>> In COLO mode, secondary needs to send the following data to primary:
>> 1. In libxl
>> Secondary sends the following CHECKPOINT_CONTEXT to primary:
>> CHECKPOINT_SVM_SUSPENDED, CHECKPOINT_SVM_READY and CHECKPOINT_SVM_RESUMED
>> 2. In libxc
>> Secondary sends the dirty pfn list to primary
>
> The overall API approach here seems good to me.
>
> But, my reading of the code is that this new fd is currently ignored.
> This is, AFAICT, intentional in the non-colo case, and we have no colo
> case yet.
>
> So I think that this new parameter needs to be slightly better
> documented. I suggest:
>
> * In this patch, add a comment next to it saying "always pass -1".
> * In the patch were the fd actually starts to do something, change
> this comment to something more meaningful.
>
Ok
>> /*
>> + * LIBXL_HAVE_DOMAIN_CREATE_RESTORE_SEND_BACK_FD 1
>> + *
>> + * If this is defined, libxl_domain_create_restore()'s API has changed to
>> + * include a send_back_fd param which used for libxl migration back channel
>> + * during COLO.
>> + */
>> +#define LIBXL_HAVE_DOMAIN_CREATE_RESTORE_SEND_BACK_FD 1
>
> I have a minor grammar quibble with this. I would write:
>
> "If this is defined, libxl_domain_create_restore()'s API
> includes the send_back_fd param. This is used only with
> COLO, for the libxl migration back channel; other callers
> should pass -1."
>
> And, with this definition of the API, I think that the code should
> actually check that -1 is passed. Personally I would be happy with
> the error case either failing assert() or returning ERROR_INVAL, but
>maybe other maintainers have a specific view.
>
I prefer assert(), will fix in next version
Thanks
-Xie
> Ian.
>
>
> .
>
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Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-04 8:41 [PATCH v11 00/27] COarse-grain LOck-stepping Virtual Machines for Non-stop Service Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 01/27] tools/libxl: introduction of libxl__qmp_restore to load qemu state Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 16:30 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-14 9:03 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 02/27] tools/libxl: introduce libxl__domain_common_switch_qemu_logdirty() Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 03/27] tools/libxl: Add back channel to allow migration target send data back Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 16:38 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-08 16:38 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-17 8:07 ` Changlong Xie [this message]
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 04/27] tools/libxl: Introduce new helper function dup_fd_helper() Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 16:42 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-17 8:08 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 05/27] tools/libx{l, c}: add back channel to libxc Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 16:45 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 06/27] docs: add colo readme Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 07/27] docs/libxl: Introduce CHECKPOINT_CONTEXT to support migration v2 colo streams Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 16:51 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-08 16:38 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-11 7:13 ` Wen Congyang
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 08/27] libxc/migration: Specification update for DIRTY_PFN_LIST records Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 16:53 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-17 8:10 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 09/27] libxc/migration: export read_record for common use Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 16:55 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 10/27] tools/libxl: add back channel support to write stream Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:00 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-07 2:13 ` Wen Congyang
2016-03-11 9:05 ` Wen Congyang
2016-03-17 8:11 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 11/27] tools/libxl: add back channel support to read stream Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:01 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 12/27] tools/libx{l, c}: introduce wait_checkpoint callback Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:03 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-04 20:23 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-07 2:16 ` Wen Congyang
2016-03-17 8:16 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 13/27] tools/libx{l, c}: add postcopy/suspend callback to restore side Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:05 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-17 8:17 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 14/27] secondary vm suspend/resume/checkpoint code Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:11 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-07 2:57 ` Wen Congyang
2016-03-17 9:03 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-17 12:19 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 15/27] primary " Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:14 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-07 2:59 ` Wen Congyang
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 16/27] libxc/restore: support COLO restore Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:16 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 17/27] libxc/save: support COLO save Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:18 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-07 3:00 ` Wen Congyang
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 18/27] implement the cmdline for COLO Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:22 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-07 3:04 ` Wen Congyang
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 19/27] COLO: introduce new API to prepare/start/do/get_error/stop replication Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:26 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-08 16:46 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-18 3:44 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-18 11:35 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-18 3:45 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:29 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-18 3:49 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 20/27] Support colo mode for qemu disk Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:44 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-07 2:06 ` Wen Congyang
2016-03-17 17:18 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-18 5:42 ` Wen Congyang
2016-03-04 17:52 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-04 20:30 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-07 2:10 ` Wen Congyang
2016-03-08 17:22 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-09 2:09 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-09 16:55 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-17 17:09 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-17 17:10 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 21/27] COLO: use qemu block replication Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 22/27] COLO proxy: implement setup/teardown of COLO proxy module Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 17:59 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-18 8:22 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-22 5:44 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-22 5:55 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 23/27] COLO proxy: preresume, postresume and checkpoint Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 18:01 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-18 8:20 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 24/27] COLO nic: implement COLO nic subkind Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 18:02 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-18 8:20 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 25/27] setup and control colo proxy on primary side Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 18:05 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-22 6:01 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 26/27] setup and control colo proxy on secondary side Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 18:05 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-04 8:41 ` [PATCH v11 27/27] cmdline switches and config vars to control colo-proxy Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 18:09 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-22 4:13 ` Changlong Xie
2016-03-04 18:17 ` [PATCH v11 00/27] COarse-grain LOck-stepping Virtual Machines for Non-stop Service Ian Jackson
2016-03-04 20:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-03-17 17:19 ` Ian Jackson
2016-03-17 17:41 ` Ian Jackson
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