Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH RDMA support v5: 03/12] comprehensive protocol documentation

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:53:11PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 12/04/2013 12:48, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> > 1.  You have two protocols already and this does not make sense in
> > version 1 of the patch.
> 
> It makes sense if we consider it experimental (add x- in front of
> transport and capability) and would like people to play with it.
> 
> Paolo

But it's not testable yet.  I see problems just reading the
documentation.  Author thinks "ulimit -l 10000000000" on both source and
destination is just fine.  This can easily crash host or cause OOM
killer to kill QEMU.  So why is there any need for extra testers?  Fix
the major bugs first.

There's a similar issue with device assignment - we can't fix it there,
and despite being available for years, this was one of two reasons that
has kept this feature out of hands of lots of users (and assuming guest
has lots of zero pages won't work: balloon is not widely used either
since it depends on a well-behaved guest to work correctly).

And it's entirely avoidable, just fix the protocol and the code.

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MST