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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] set migration max downtime
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 22:52:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A19A56D.2020303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A19A46E.1070308@us.ibm.com>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> I prefer seconds (and bytes).
>
> As a floating point value?

Yes.  More than enough spacecraft have been lost due to errors in unit 
conversion.

>
> I would think the typical down time would be in the ms-us range so 
> we're talking 0.030 - 0.000030 if we express in seconds.

Just like we support suffixes for memory, we could support them for 
time.  So your range would be 30ms - 30us (committing another crime 
writing µs as us).

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-24 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-21 22:49 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Transfer of funds Glauber Costa
2009-05-21 22:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] add non-arbitrary migration stop condition Glauber Costa
2009-05-21 22:49   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] set migration max downtime Glauber Costa
2009-05-22  2:09     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-24 11:07       ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-24 19:47         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-24 19:52           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-05-24 22:40             ` M. Warner Losh
2009-05-22  2:08   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] add non-arbitrary migration stop condition Anthony Liguori
2009-05-24  8:29     ` Avi Kivity
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-28 19:22 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Add non-arbitrary treshold for migration Glauber Costa
2009-05-28 19:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] add non-arbitrary migration stop condition Glauber Costa
2009-05-28 19:22   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] set migration max downtime Glauber Costa

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