Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] migration: Create block capabilities for shared and enable

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Juan Quintela (address@hidden) wrote:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 05/11/2017 11:32 AM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> >> Those two capabilities were added through the command line.  Notice that
> >> we just created them.  This is just the boilerplate.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
> >> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> >> 
> >> --
> >> 
> >> Make migrate_set_block_* take a boolean argument.
> >
> > Question - do we support the orthogonal selection of all 4 combinations
> > under HMP 'migrate' (no argument, -b alone, -i alone, -b and -i
> > together), or are there only 3 actual states? If the latter, should we
> > represent this as a single enum-valued property, rather than as two
> > independent boolean properties?
> 
> { 'enum': 'MigrationCapability',
>   'data': ['xbzrle', 'rdma-pin-all', 'auto-converge', 'zero-blocks',
>            'compress', 'events', 'postcopy-ram', 'x-colo', 'release-ram'] }
> 
> 
> My understanding is that we can only have boolean capabilities here.
> Or, how could we put a non-boolean capability?

Lets keep this simple and stick with the booleans.

Dave

> There are three states as far as I can see.
> 
> Later, Juan.
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK