From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: quintela@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] rtl8139: IO memory is not part of vmstate
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:59:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D07947B.80702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292341315.2857.175.camel@x201>
On 12/14/2010 04:41 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > Maybe in this particular case the advantage is minimal.
> > But it seems easier to stick to a rule of no more version
> > bumps than argue about each case.
>
> Do we have such a rule? If we have a subsection who's needed function
> is return 1, I think that's a good indication that it's not appropriate
> for a subsection and the end result is equivalent to bumping the main
> driver vmstate version. It's convoluted to try to hide a one-way
> upgrade in a subsection. Thanks,
Indeed, subsections are for data that is rarely needed so that there's
some chance (sometimes ~100%) of migration working seemlessly. In this
case it's either no-bump-and-live-with-the-consequences, or changing the
version id.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-14 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-09 19:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rtl8139: IO memory is not part of vmstate Alex Williamson
2010-12-09 21:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2010-12-09 22:14 ` Alex Williamson
2010-12-12 10:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-12 11:53 ` Juan Quintela
2010-12-12 12:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-12 14:37 ` Juan Quintela
2010-12-12 16:29 ` Alex Williamson
2010-12-12 16:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-12 21:25 ` Juan Quintela
2010-12-13 17:43 ` Alex Williamson
2010-12-13 17:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-13 18:00 ` Alex Williamson
2010-12-13 18:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-13 18:59 ` Alex Williamson
2010-12-13 19:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-13 19:15 ` Alex Williamson
2010-12-14 4:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-14 5:00 ` Alex Williamson
2010-12-14 12:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-14 15:41 ` Alex Williamson
2010-12-14 15:59 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2010-12-15 10:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-15 17:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-12-15 19:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-16 12:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-12-15 10:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-12-15 16:05 ` Alex Williamson
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