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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	"Michael R. Hines" <mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: GILR@il.ibm.com, SADEKJ@il.ibm.com, quintela@redhat.com,
	hinesmr@cn.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, EREZH@il.ibm.com,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	owasserm@redhat.com, junqing.wang@cs2c.com.cn, onom@us.ibm.com,
	abali@us.ibm.com, lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, gokul@us.ibm.com,
	dbulkow@gmail.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, BIRAN@il.ibm.com,
	isaku.yamahata@gmail.com, "Michael R. Hines" <mrhines@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 10/12] mc: expose tunable parameter for checkpointing frequency
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:35:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <533EDF66.10302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140404162829.GA6393@work-vm>

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On 04/04/2014 10:28 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> One thing to be a little careful about if we merge these tunables
> together, is what tunables are allowed to be changed while the migration
> is running.  The 'capabilities' are currently fixed once the migration
> starts, but I know at least some of the tuneables people want to change
> while things are going - and some care is needed with it since (as we
> found with the xbzrle cache size) we get fun due to the use being in
> a different thread.

Possible to solve that by adding an annotation in extended query output
of which tunables are live, and by making the set command reject any
changes for a tunable that is not live if migration is already underway.
 But yes, worth thinking about.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-04 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-18  8:50 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] mc: fault tolerante through micro-checkpointing mrhines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 01/12] mc: add documentation for micro-checkpointing mrhines
2014-02-18 12:45   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-02-19  1:40     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-19 11:27       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-02-20  1:17         ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-20 10:09           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-02-20 11:14             ` Li Guang
2014-02-20 14:58               ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-20 14:57             ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-20 16:32               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-02-21  4:54                 ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-21  9:44                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-03-03  6:08                     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 02/12] mc: timestamp migration_bitmap and KVM logdirty usage mrhines
2014-02-18 10:32   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-02-19  1:42     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-03-11 21:31   ` Juan Quintela
2014-04-04  3:08     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 03/12] mc: introduce a 'checkpointing' status check into the VCPU states mrhines
2014-03-11 21:36   ` Juan Quintela
2014-04-04  3:11     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-03-11 21:40   ` Eric Blake
2014-04-04  3:12     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 04/12] mc: support custom page loading and copying mrhines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 05/12] rdma: accelerated memcpy() support and better external RDMA user interfaces mrhines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 06/12] mc: introduce state machine changes for MC mrhines
2014-02-19  1:00   ` Li Guang
2014-02-19  2:14     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-20  5:03     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-21  8:13     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-24  6:48       ` Li Guang
2014-02-26  2:52         ` Li Guang
2014-03-11 21:57   ` Juan Quintela
2014-04-04  3:50     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 07/12] mc: introduce additional QMP statistics for micro-checkpointing mrhines
2014-03-11 21:45   ` Eric Blake
2014-04-04  3:15     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-04-04  4:22       ` Eric Blake
2014-03-11 21:59   ` Juan Quintela
2014-04-04  3:55     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 08/12] mc: core logic mrhines
2014-02-19  1:07   ` Li Guang
2014-02-19  2:16     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-19  2:53       ` Li Guang
2014-02-19  4:27         ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 09/12] mc: configure and makefile support mrhines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 10/12] mc: expose tunable parameter for checkpointing frequency mrhines
2014-03-11 21:49   ` Eric Blake
2014-03-11 22:15     ` Juan Quintela
2014-03-11 22:49       ` Eric Blake
2014-04-04  5:29         ` Michael R. Hines
2014-04-04 14:56           ` Eric Blake
2014-04-11  6:10             ` Michael R. Hines
2014-04-04 16:28           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-04-04 16:35             ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-04-04  3:29     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 11/12] mc: introduce new capabilities to control micro-checkpointing mrhines
2014-03-11 21:57   ` Eric Blake
2014-04-04  3:38     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-04-04  4:25       ` Eric Blake
2014-03-11 22:02   ` Juan Quintela
2014-03-11 22:07     ` Eric Blake
2014-04-04  3:57       ` Michael R. Hines
2014-04-04  3:56     ` Michael R. Hines
2014-02-18  8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 12/12] mc: activate and use MC if requested mrhines
2014-02-18  9:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 00/12] mc: fault tolerante through micro-checkpointing Li Guang
2014-02-19  1:29   ` Michael R. Hines

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