Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] -incoming pause

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) 17 Feb 2015 [09:14:27], Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/17/2015 07:59 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
> >>>
> >>> So the only comment I have is with the 'pause' name.
> >>>
> >>> 'pause' to me means there's a time period for which a pause has to be
> >>> done; or pausing an activity which is already in progress, both of
> >>> which are not true for this case.
> >>
> >> I think that pause and wait are both pretty similar; wait generally
> >> does mean wait for something specific though.
> >>
> >> The 'pause' button on your video player doesn't have an expectation
> >> of how long you will pause it.
> > 
> > Right; but it pauses an already-playing video.  We're not pausing an
> > incoming migration here; we're not even started.
> > 
> > So pause in the migration world will make sense (to me, of course)
> > when we actually pause an ongoing migration...
> 
> As long as we are bike-shedding, would 'defer' be any nicer, as an
> indication that we are deferring the actual migration until the QMP
> command starts it?

I like 'defer'; I wasn't too sure about wait/hold as well, so thanks :-)


                Amit