From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Daniel P . Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
Leonardo Bras Soares Passos <lsoaresp@redhat.com>,
"Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] migration: Disable multifd explicitly with compression
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:04:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iljhbpj4.fsf@secure.mitica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221004182430.97638-6-peterx@redhat.com> (Peter Xu's message of "Tue, 4 Oct 2022 14:24:30 -0400")
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
> Multifd thread model does not work for compression, explicitly disable it.
>
> Note that previuosly even we can enable both of them, nothing will go
> wrong, because the compression code has higher priority so multifd feature
> will just be ignored. Now we'll fail even earlier at config time so the
> user should be aware of the consequence better.
>
> Note that there can be a slight chance of breaking existing users, but
> let's assume they're not majority and not serious users, or they should
> have found that multifd is not working already.
>
> With that, we can safely drop the check in ram_save_target_page() for using
> multifd, because when multifd=on then compression=off, then the removed
> check on save_page_use_compression() will also always return false too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-15 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-04 18:24 [PATCH v2 0/5] migration: Bug fixes (prepare for preempt-full) Peter Xu
2022-10-04 18:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] migration: Fix possible infinite loop of ram save process Peter Xu
2022-11-14 14:02 ` Juan Quintela
2022-10-04 18:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] migration: Fix race on qemu_file_shutdown() Peter Xu
2022-11-14 14:02 ` Juan Quintela
2022-10-04 18:24 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] migration: Disallow postcopy preempt to be used with compress Peter Xu
2022-11-14 14:03 ` Juan Quintela
2022-10-04 18:24 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] migration: Use non-atomic ops for clear log bitmap Peter Xu
2022-11-14 14:04 ` Juan Quintela
2022-10-04 18:24 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] migration: Disable multifd explicitly with compression Peter Xu
2022-10-05 10:49 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2022-11-14 14:04 ` Juan Quintela [this message]
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