From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mst@redhat.com
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix rtl8139 migration with hotplug
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:05:59 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d3p1xjsw.fsf@trasno.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101216175516.6420.66081.stgit@s20.home> (Alex Williamson's message of "Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:01:49 -0700")
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:
> Ok, I think this might actually make everyone happy, but I've been
> known to be wrong about that many times before. Juan challenged me
> to find an rtl8139 migration scenario that fails when hotplug is
> not involved (and not switch device creation order since that's a
> usage bug). I couldn't come up with one. We had been arguing that
> a subsection didn't make sense for the change to rtl8139 vmstate
> because the needed function would be {return 1}. but what if we
> could detect if the VM had done any other hotplugs and only include
> the subsection in those cases. That's what this short series does.
>
> So, I hope Juan is happy because this preserves the migration ABI
> for the majority of the use cases, and I hope Michael is happy
> because it does so using a subsection. Thanks,
>
> Alex
I am happy.
Thanks a lot.
Acked-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-17 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-16 18:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Fix rtl8139 migration with hotplug Alex Williamson
2010-12-16 18:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qdev: Track runtime machine modifications Alex Williamson
2010-12-16 18:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] rtl8139: Use subsection to restrict migration after hotplug Alex Williamson
2010-12-16 23:41 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix rtl8139 migration with hotplug Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-17 1:35 ` Juan Quintela [this message]
2011-01-04 19:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH " Alex Williamson
2011-01-04 19:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH 1/2] qdev: Track runtime machine modifications Alex Williamson
2011-01-12 12:09 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-01-12 13:51 ` Alex Williamson
2011-01-04 19:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH 2/2] rtl8139: Use subsection to restrict migration after hotplug Alex Williamson
2011-01-05 10:13 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Fix rtl8139 migration with hotplug Michael S. Tsirkin
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