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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Sameeh Jubran <sameeh@daynix.com>,
	Yan Vugenfirer <yan@daynix.com>,
	libvir-list@redhat.com, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [RFC 0/2] Attempt to implement the standby feature for assigned network devices
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 12:22:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181205121914-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181205170916.GK799@angien.pipo.sk>

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 06:09:16PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> From managements point of view, bundling all this together is really not
> a good idea since it creates a very big matrix of failure scenarios.

I think this is clear. This is why we are doing it in QEMU where we can
actually do all the rollbacks transparently.

> In
> general even libvirt will prefer that upper layer management drives this
> externally, since any rolback scenario will result in a policy decision
> of what to do in certain cases, and what timeouts to pick.

Architectural ugliness of implementing what is from users perspective a
mechanism and not a policy aside, experience teaches that this isn't
going to happen.  People have been talking about the idea of doing
this at the upper layers for years.

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-05 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-25 14:06 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/2] Attempt to implement the standby feature for assigned network devices Sameeh Jubran
2018-10-25 14:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/2] qdev/qbus: Add hidden device support Sameeh Jubran
2018-10-25 14:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 2/2] virtio-net: Implement VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature Sameeh Jubran
2018-10-25 18:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/2] Attempt to implement the standby feature for assigned network devices Sameeh Jubran
2018-12-05 16:18   ` Michael Roth
2018-12-05 17:09     ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Peter Krempa
2018-12-05 17:22       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2018-12-05 17:26         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-05 17:43       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-10-25 22:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-05 17:18 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-05 17:26   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-05 20:24   ` Michael Roth
2018-12-05 20:44     ` Michael Roth
2018-12-05 20:58       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-05 20:57     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-06 10:01       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-06 10:06     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-07 16:36       ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-12-07 16:46         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-12-07 18:26           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-12-07 17:50       ` Roman Kagan
2018-12-07 18:20       ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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