Re: [PATCH 7/7] qemu: Support newer ivshmem and prefer that over the legacy one

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On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 09:27:47AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 01:50:11PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
QEMU added support for ivshmem-plain and ivshmem-doorbell.  Those are
reworked varians of legacy ivshmem that are compatible, but have sane
specification and handling.

Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347049

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 src/qemu/qemu_command.c                            | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++--
 .../qemuxml2argv-shmem-plain-doorbell.args         | 42 ++++++++++++++
 .../qemuxml2argv-shmem-plain-doorbell.xml          | 54 ++++++++++++++++++
 tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           |  3 +
 4 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-shmem-plain-doorbell.args
 create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-shmem-plain-doorbell.xml

Isn't this going to break migration compatibility. eg if someone
has a guest running on a QEMU with ivshmem, which also has the
ivshmem-plain, then when they upgrade libvirt their guest will
guest the different device, which has different migration ABI ?

Or is there a blocker that entirely prevents migration with
ivshmem, making it a non-issue ?


ivshmem migration is forbidden if the role is "master".  It now makes
sense with the new ivshmem-plain, but didn't make much sense with the
old one, so we didn't add support for it.  Thanks to that we can make
old ones just role=peer and the new ones to role=master (which are the
qemu defaults anyway) and then we can check that in the ABI stability
check.  I forgot to do that, good point.  However, I need to make sure
that migration works from legacy to ivshmem-plain, otherwise we'd need
to either add a model (I wouldn't like that) or forbid migration based
on qemu capabilities and migration cookie flag.  I'll have a look at
that.


Regards,
Daniel
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