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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
	borntraeger@de.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	jjherne@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/1] virtio: migrate config_vector
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 12:04:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55547315.9050209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150514095651.GA12939@redhat.com>



On 14/05/2015 11:56, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > That's expected.  Subsections break compatibility because sometimes
> > breaking migration is better than leaving a broken guest after migration.
> 
> Right, and what happens is that some devices work kind of okay without
> config interrupts? Christian - is this why you are trying to preserve
> the broken behaviour for cross-version migration?

If you really want that, the hook should be in the virtio device class.
Keying on the machine type is almost never the answer, at least upstream.

Distros can always override it if they know what they're getting into.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-14 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-13 14:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/1] virtio: fix config_vector migration issues Cornelia Huck
2015-05-13 14:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/1] virtio: migrate config_vector Cornelia Huck
2015-05-13 14:58   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-05-13 15:03     ` Cornelia Huck
2015-05-13 16:14       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-05-13 18:57         ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-05-13 21:47           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-05-14  9:22             ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-05-14  9:36               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-05-14 10:02                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-14 10:30                 ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-05-14 17:00                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-05-15  7:08                     ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-05-15  7:13                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-05-18 11:26                         ` Cornelia Huck
2015-05-18 15:29                           ` Cornelia Huck
2015-06-03 11:59                             ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-06-03 12:23                               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-05-14  8:24         ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-14  9:56           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-05-14 10:04             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-05-14 10:07               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-05-14 10:09                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-05-14 10:38                   ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-05-14  8:22   ` Paolo Bonzini

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