Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] migration: differentiate between pages and bytes

[Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>]

"Li, Liang Z" <liang.z.li@intel.com> wrote:
>> Current migration code returns number of bytes transferred and from there
>> we decide if we.have sent something or not.  Problem, we need two results:
>> number of pages written, and number of bytes written (depending on
>> compression, zero pages, etc, it is not possible to derive one value from the
>> other).
>> 
>> So, I changed all relevant function to return the number of written pages,
>> and then pass as uint64_t *bytes_transferred to update the written bytes.
>> 
>> On current code, makes things a bit easier to understand, but is not strictely
>> necesary.  But for the compression patches from Li, it makes a big difference,
>> we can return that we have written a page, even if we have just started the
>> write, but having writtten in reality zero bytes.
>> 
>> Once there, I add doxygen documentation to all function that I touched (yes,
>> I was long due).
>> 
>> save_block_hdr really saved headers for pages, not blocks.  Rename it, and
>> simplify the interface.
>> 
>> Li, does this make your life easier?  I hope so.  Should make really easy to
>> remove the one_bytes_sent "hack", and allow my other suggestions.
>> 
>> Comments?
>> 
>> Later, Juan.
>> 
>> PD.  Code is obviously correct, but I run it through virt-test
>>      anyways.  And it failed :-(  In despair, I tried virt-test on HEAD,
>>      and it also failed, so ....  I add another thing to my ToDo list.
>> 
>> PD2.  Modifying ram_save_page() has become complicated, very
>>       complicated. I think that know a couple of simplications, but
>>       require touching RDMA code, and anyways, fixing migration in
>>       "master" looks like a higher priority.
>
> Hi Juan, when could you make your patches be merged?  I have prepared my 
> Version 6 patches,  and I am waiting for your patches being merged before I can
> send out my patches.

Sorry, I plan to merge them between Today and Tomorrow.

Sorry, Juan.