From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chFeL-0004gF-8X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:11:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chFeH-00054f-95 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:11:05 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44756) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1chFeH-00052s-4F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:11:01 -0500 Received: from int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx13.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C82183F38 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:11:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Juan Quintela In-Reply-To: <20170206173306.20603-2-dgilbert@redhat.com> (David Alan Gilbert's message of "Mon, 6 Feb 2017 17:32:51 +0000") References: <20170206173306.20603-1-dgilbert@redhat.com> <20170206173306.20603-2-dgilbert@redhat.com> Reply-To: quintela@redhat.com Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:10:50 +0100 Message-ID: <8737f3loo5.fsf@emacs.mitica> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/16] postcopy: Transmit ram size summary word List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aarcange@redhat.com "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" wrote: > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" > > Replace the host page-size in the 'advise' command by a pagesize > summary bitmap; if the VM is just using normal RAM then > this will be exactly the same as before, however if they're using > huge pages they'll be different, and thus: > a) Migration from/to old qemu's that don't understand huge pages > will fail early. > b) Migrations with different size RAMBlocks will also fail early. > > This catches it very early; earlier than the detailed per-block > check in the next patch. > > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela