Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 00/56] Postcopy implementation

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 09/11/2015 05:13, David Gibson wrote:
> Which makes me think it's a bit odd that we're not already getting 
> most of the htab data across during the precopy phase.  Don't we 
> already delay entering the postcopy phase until precopy is
> "complete" in the sense that the remaining non-postcopiable data is
> below the downtime limit?  I would have thought that would also
> ensure we'd only have a reasonable number of remaining htab updates
> for the package.

You can enter postcopy at any time.  In this case, Bharata is entering
immediately after the beginning of migration, basically without doing
any work in precopy mode.

Paolo