[Qemu-devel] Re: Live migration protocol, device features, ABIs and other beasts

[Gleb Natapov]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:29:11PM +0100, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Gleb Natapov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:29:12AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> On 11/23/2009 09:26 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >> >>>>  >I'd go with chunk instead of feature bits, specifying them like in
> >> >>>>  >the PNG specification:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>  You mean, each device would have multiple sections?  We already use
> >> >>>  chunks for each device state.
> >> >>>
> >> >Each device can send device info in multiple formats (each format with
> >> >its own ID) and destination will choose the one it supports.
> >> 
> >> First of all, we'd need a mechanism to send _lengths_ of chunks.
> > And we need the mechanism to match incoming chunks to a consumer.
> > Not relay on order of incoming data.
> 
> We already do that:
> see savevm.c:qemu_loadvm_state()
> 
Cool. Didn't know that.

> After reading a section, we call find_se(), with searchs for a
> matching section, we can do the same for any subsection/chunk/<name it>
> 
> static SaveStateEntry *find_se(const char *idstr, int instance_id)
> {
>     SaveStateEntry *se;
> 
>     QTAILQ_FOREACH(se, &savevm_handlers, entry) {
>         if (!strcmp(se->idstr, idstr) &&
>             instance_id == se->instance_id)
>             return se;
>     }
>     return NULL;
> }
> 
> Later, Juan.

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                        Gleb.