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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rdma: rename 'x-rdma' => 'rdma'
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Il 26/10/2013 10:45, Michael R. Hines ha scritto:
>> Sure, x-rdma => rdma *is* stable.  I'm not sure about x-rdma-pin-all though.
> 
> Use of this capability (which is disabled by default) is actually
> "safer" than migration without it - you would get an early warning well
> in advance of actually starting the iterative phases that there was not
> sufficient memory available on the destination.

I guess that shows more of my (lack of) knowledge about RDMA. :)  You're
obviously right, x-rdma-pin-all could make sense even if we had fancy
caching strategies.

Paolo