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Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecating old machine-types (was Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] i
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Eduardo Habkost |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecating old machine-types (was Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type) |
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Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:50:52 -0300 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:47:43AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> On 11/10/2016 10:23, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 09:36:29AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/10/2016 19:46, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >>> I don't think we have a plan, but I would support deprecating and
> >>> removing very old machine-types. The question is: how old is too
> >>> old?
> >>>
> >>> For reference, the commits and dates when each machine-type was
> >>> added are below:
> >>>
> >>> machine commit commit date release release date
> >>> pc-0.10 e8b2a1c6 Jul 8 2009 v0.11.0 Sep 22 2009
> >>> pc-0.13 95747581 Jul 22 2009 v0.12.0 Dec 19 2009
> >>> pc-0.12 2cae6f5e Jan 8 2010 v0.13.0 Oct 14 2010
> >>> pc-0.13 d76fa62d Feb 15 2010 v0.13.0 Oct 14 2010
> >>> pc-0.14 b903a0f7 Nov 11 2010 v0.14.0 Feb 16 2011
> >>> pc-0.15 ce01a508 Dec 18 2011 v1.1.0 Jun 1 2012
> >>> pc-1.0 19857e62 Nov 7 2011 v1.0 Dec 1 2011
> >>> pc-1.1 382b3a68 Feb 21 2012 v1.1.0 Jun 1 2012
> >>> pc-1.2 f1dacf1c Jun 11 2012 v1.2.0 Sep 5 2012
> >>> pc-1.3 f4306941 Sep 13 2012 v1.3.0 Dec 3 2012
> >>
> >> Anything before pc-1.3 has issues with migration due to the introduction
> >> of the memory API. Basically, 0xf0000-0xfffff is not migrated
> >> correctly, and the result is that rebooting after migration causes the
> >> guest to crash. So that could be a reasonable place to draw the line at.
> >
> > That is a one-off special case - I think it would be desirable to come up
> > with a general rule we can follow indefinitely, which we can apply at the
> > start of each release cycle to purge old stuff.
> >
> > If we wanted to pick pc-1.3 as the starting point and generalize it, we
> > choose declare we'll support machine types for 4 years. Or we could do
> > it in terms of number of releases - eg we'll support the last N releases
> > (for 3/releases per year cadence, that'd be N == 12)
>
> I don't know, it's already boring to create a new machine every time...
> I would hate to have to remove one or more machine types every three
> months. Consider that adding new machine types will hardly introduce
> bugs; what causes bugs is removing them.
I wouldn't like to _have_ to remove them, but I would love to
have a clear policy that would set user expectations and allow us
to remove some of them once in a while.
--
Eduardo
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 5/8] intel_iommu: add OnOffAuto intr_eim as "eim" property, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 5/8] intel_iommu: add OnOffAuto intr_eim as "eim" property, Radim Krčmář, 2016/10/05
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type, Radim Krčmář, 2016/10/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type, Eduardo Habkost, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type, Radim Krčmář, 2016/10/06
- [Qemu-devel] Deprecating old machine-types (was Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type), Eduardo Habkost, 2016/10/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecating old machine-types (was Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type), Paolo Bonzini, 2016/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecating old machine-types (was Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type), Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecating old machine-types (was Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type), Paolo Bonzini, 2016/10/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecating old machine-types (was Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type),
Eduardo Habkost <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type, Radim Krčmář, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 7/8] intel_iommu: keep buggy EIM enabled in 2.7 machine type, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2016/10/09
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 8/8] target-i386/kvm: cache the return value of kvm_enable_x2apic(), Radim Krčmář, 2016/10/05