Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Move migrate_set_speed and migrate_set_downtime into migrate_set_parameter

[Ashijeet Acharya]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On 05/09/2016 10:11, Ashijeet Acharya wrote:
>> > > Include migrate_set_speed and migrate_set_downtime inside
>> > > migrate_set_parameters respectively for setting maximum migration
>> > > speed and expected downtime parameters. Also add the query part for
>> > > both in qmp and hmp qemu control interfaces.
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Ashijeet Acharya <address@hidden>
>> >
>> > You cannot break backwards compatibility for everyone that is using
>> > those commands, sorry.
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>> So should I keep the old commands too and add the new ones anyway for
>> the query part?
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> You do not need query for the old ones, but you can indeed add support
> for speed and downtime in migrate-set-parameters and MigrationParameters.

Right. So I will add the old-commands back and just add support for the new ones
under migration-set-parameters along with the query.

> (Note: I'm not a migration maintainer, so they might say something else).

Okay. I will wait for their views too.

Ashijeet
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> Paolo
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>> The old ones will also be modified for query. So we will have
>> compatibility as well as the
>> query.