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From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
To: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QAPI conversion status and async commands support
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:50:04 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120312105004.4a7e1f50@doriath.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F5DB72A.2080906@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:43:22 +0800
Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > Having said that, I wonder if postponing want-to-be-async commands to 1.2 is
> > a good thing. Two solutions other than waiting:
> > 
> >  1. Add synchronous versions of them, if possible (I think this is possible
> >     for the dump command)
> 
> I agree with this. libvirt uses migrate command to do dump now, and it cannot work
> when the guest uses host's device. We need to fix this bug as quickly as possible.
> So we need dump command recently. So I think we can add synchronous versions of
> dump command. Is it OK? If it is OK, I will send the synchronous versions of
> dump command.

I'd be fine with this because this command is expected to be used when the guest
crashes, right? In this case, I _guess_ that holding the global mutex for a long
time is not the end of the world, as the world has ended already :) Far from ideal,
of course, but is the best we can do right now.

Anthony, do you have objections?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-12 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-07 16:36 [Qemu-devel] QAPI conversion status and async commands support Luiz Capitulino
2012-03-07 17:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-07 17:36   ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-07 18:12     ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-03-12  8:43       ` Wen Congyang
2012-03-12 13:50         ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2012-03-07 20:06     ` Alon Levy
2012-03-12  7:30       ` Alon Levy
2012-03-08 12:34     ` Kevin Wolf
2012-03-08 14:12       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-08 14:22         ` Kevin Wolf

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