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

[Amit Shah]

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'.

                Amit