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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
	quintela@trasno.org, KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Developers qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:47:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4CE8FB.8080404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QWW9OqQ3uDpE5wY9QDasM+7AiX5wLnoXpxQarLKwEOr4w@mail.gmail.com>

Il 28/02/2012 15:39, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto:
> I'm not a fan of transactions or freeze/thaw (if used to atomically
> perform other commands).
> 
> We should not export low-level block device operations so that
> external software can micromanage via QMP.  I don't think this is a
> good idea because it takes the block device offline and possibly
> blocks the VM.  We're reaching a level comparable to an HTTP interface
> for acquiring pthread mutex, doing some operations, and then another
> HTTP request to unlock it.  This is micromanagement it will create
> more problems because we will have to support lots of little API
> functions.

So you're for extending Jeff's patches to group mirroring etc.?

That's also my favorite one, assuming we can do it in time for 1.1.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-28 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-27 12:22 KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th Juan Quintela
2012-02-27 17:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eric Blake
2012-02-27 21:58   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 22:06     ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 22:09       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-28 14:39       ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-28 14:47         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-02-28 14:58           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-02-28 16:07             ` blockdev operations [was: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for Tuesday 28th] Eric Blake
2012-02-28 16:12               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-29 10:16               ` [Qemu-devel] blockdev operations [was: " Kevin Wolf

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