Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] -incoming defer

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:55:53AM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Stefan Hajnoczi (stefanha@gmail.com) wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:40:26AM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > This patchset provides a way of setting options on an incoming
> > > migration before the fd/process/socket has been created.
> > > 
> > >    start qemu with   -incoming defer
> > >    <use the monitor to set whatever you need>
> > >    migrate_incoming theuri
> > 
> > Does this patch series break BDRV_O_INCOMING?
> > 
> > blockdev.c:blockdev_init():
> >   if (runstate_check(RUN_STATE_INMIGRATE)) {
> >       bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_INCOMING;
> >   }
> > 
> > The block layer needs to know about incoming migrations to avoid
> > accessing or caching disk images while the source host still has them
> > open.
> 
> No, it doesn't break it; it goes into RUN_STATE_INMIGRATE at startup
> in the same way that all existing -incoming's do; the state transitions
> should be identical.

Great, thanks for explaining.

I have verified that vl.c:main() sets RUN_STATE_INMIGRATE in all cases:

  case QEMU_OPTION_incoming:
      incoming = optarg;
      runstate_set(RUN_STATE_INMIGRATE);
      break;

Stefan

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