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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio 9p live migration patches
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Canet <benoit.canet@irqsave.net>, quintela@redhat.com, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org


There is still the need to serialize the fid linked list.
I saw in the current code base that virtio-blk.c was using the old API to
serialize a linked list.

Does writing support for serializing linked list in vmstate worth it ?
Or is it better to keep the old API to serialize ?

Regards

Beno=EEt

> Le Thursday 04 Apr 2013 =E0 15:42:06 (+0200), Paolo Bonzini a =E9crit :
> Il 04/04/2013 14:37, Beno=EEt Canet ha scritto:
> > We also need to ensure new 9p request are blocked.
>=20
> Migration runs with the VM paused.  It would be simplest to flush all
> the requests before migrating, that's what the block layer does.  (The
> migration of requests we have in virtio-blk, scsi-disk etc. is only for
> rerror/werror=3Dstop; it is not invoked in the common case).
>=20
> Paolo
>=20