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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migratio
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Andreas Färber |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream |
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Fri, 16 May 2014 11:22:28 +0200 |
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Am 16.05.2014 11:14, schrieb Fam Zheng:
> On Thu, 05/15 12:08, Greg Kurz wrote:
>>>> The main problem I see is that virtio sucks: as you see in patch 8, we have
>>>> to be careful not to call vring or virtqueue stuff before the device knows
>>>> its endianness or it breaks... I need to study how the virtio-bus gets
>>>> migrated to ensure the endian section is streamed before the devices.
>>>
>>> There is no ordering guarantee. The state needs to be migrated in the
>>> device or bus where it sits, if post-load processing is required; i.e.,
>>> if it's in VirtIODevice then something like this series, if it were on
>>> VirtioBus exclusively (device asking bus for its endianness each time
>>> and does not do post-load stuff) then endianness could be migrated as a
>>> new bus section. Not sure if that would help the "broken" state though?
>>>
>>
>> IIRW the "broken" state was proposed as a per-device property...
>
> Yes.
Sure, and that makes sense, but we do have a 1:1 relation of bus/device,
or does virtio-mmio support more? If device doesn't work for some
reason, we could (mis)use the bus as fallback then.
Cheers,
Andreas
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Markus Armbruster, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Greg Kurz, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Markus Armbruster, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Greg Kurz, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Greg Kurz, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Greg Kurz, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Greg Kurz, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Fam Zheng, 2014/05/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream,
Andreas Färber <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Fam Zheng, 2014/05/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Greg Kurz, 2014/05/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Greg Kurz, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Amit Shah, 2014/05/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/8] virtio: add subsections to the migration stream, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/05/15
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/8] virtio-net: migrate subsections, Greg Kurz, 2014/05/14
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 3/8] virtio-blk: migrate subsections, Greg Kurz, 2014/05/14
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 4/8] virtio-scsi: migrate subsections, Greg Kurz, 2014/05/14