Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/10] Translate offsets to destination address space

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Michael R. Hines (mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> On 05/19/2015 01:44 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> >* Michael R. Hines (mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> >>On 04/20/2015 10:57 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> >>>From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> >>>
> >>>The 'offset' field in RDMACompress and 'current_addr' field
> >>>in RDMARegister are commented as being offsets within a particular
> >>>RAMBlock, however they appear to actually be offsets within the
> >>>ram_addr_t space.
> >>>
> >>>The code currently assumes that the offsets on the source/destination
> >>>match, this change removes the need for the assumption for these
> >>>structures by translating the addresses into the ram_addr_t space of
> >>>the destination host.
> >>I don't understand fully: If the offsets are not the same, then
> >>why would the RAMBlocks be the same? If a RAMBlock
> >>is hot-plugged on one side, shouldn't an identical one be
> >>hotplugged on the other side, including the offset into ram_addr_t?
> >If a RAMBlock is hotplugged on the source, it's normally passed in on
> >the command line at startup on the destination, not hotplugged.
> >
> >This difference in order of allocation of the RAMBlocks can cause
> >the allocation of space in ram_addr_t to be different.
> >
> >In addition changes between qemu versions as to the order in which
> >devices are initialised can cause differences in the allocation in ram_addr_t.
> >
> >Indeed the allocation algorithm isn't very deterministic, I think it looks
> >for the smallest gap that will fit for the allocation.
> >Also, lets say that you hot plugged 6 devices, and hot unplugged 5,
> >then migrated;  on the destination you only see one of them, not the history
> >of the other allocations that had to be performed.
> 
> I see ---- so until now, I just got "lucky" that the RAMBlocks were
> in the same order with the same offsets =).

Yep.

Dave
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK