Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] qerror: Add a new MACHINE_STOPPED error message

[Markus Armbruster]

Amit Shah <address@hidden> writes:

> On (Fri) Aug 27 2010 [07:39:37], Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> >
>> >NACK. It has always been allowed&  valid to call query-balloon
>> >to get the current balloon level. We must not throw an error
>> >just because the recently added mem stats can't be refreshed.
>> 
>> I think that's a fair comment but why even bother fixing the
>> command.  Let's introduce a new command that just gets a single
>> piece of information instead of having a command return lots of
>> information.
>
> Instead, let's have query-balloon do the same thing as it did in 0.12
> and add a new command for 0.13 (query-balloon-stats) that does the stats
> with timeout?
>
> That way we won't have regressions from 0.12 and have the new behaviour
> only for 0.13, which we can say is 'experimental'.

Sounds sensible to me.  Not too late for fixing 0.13?  Anthony?