Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rdma: rename 'x-rdma' => 'rdma'

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 22/10/2013 21:20, Eric Blake ha scritto:
>> > -# @x-rdma-pin-all: Controls whether or not the entire VM memory footprint 
>> > is
>> > +# @rdma-pin-all: Controls whether or not the entire VM memory footprint is
>> >  #          mlock()'d on demand or all at once. Refer to docs/rdma.txt for 
>> > usage.
>> >  #          Disabled by default. Experimental: may (or may not) be renamed 
>> > after
>> >  #          further testing is complete. (since 1.6)
> I'd also recommend tweaking this to say 'since 1.7', since the spelling
> 'rdma-pin-all' is new to this release.

I would also leave this as experimental for now.

Basically the point of the "experimental" designation was to ensure that
RDMA protocol changes might not preserve backwards compatibility.  The
capability is a separate thing from the protocol, as it would likely
apply to any migration-over-RDMA implementation

Paolo