From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59762) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RB9iy-0006ZV-Rw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:28:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RB9iu-0008UO-Hg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:28:16 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:25849) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RB9iu-0008UJ-9c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:28:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4E8B5037.1050507@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:28:07 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4E8B4E59.9030607@redhat.com> <4E8B4F02.1010907@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4E8B4F02.1010907@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] migration: Improve subsections detection List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Juan Quintela On 10/04/2011 08:22 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> The original intent with subsections was to register them as a new >> vmstate >> section, with just a name relationship. >> >> Can we rename .subsections to .old_and_semi_broken_subsections, and >> introduce a >> new .subsections field that works properly in all cases? > > > That gets a bit hairy. We don't really rely on section order today > and I think this would introduce a section order requirement. The information is there, since a subsection is contained within its section. In practice working in FIFO order preserves it. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function