Re: [PATCH] qemu: Don't set migration caps when changing postcopy bandwidth

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On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 13:31:14 +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 12:39:56 +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 12:15:08 +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote:

[...]

> So how about:
> 
>     The qemuMigrationParamsApply internal API was designed to apply all
>     migration parameters and capabilities before we start to migrate a
>     domain. While migration parameters are only passed to QEMU when we
>     explicitly want to set a specific value, capabilities are always
>     either enabled or disabled.
> 
>     Thus when this API is called outside migration job, e.g., via a call
>     to qemuDomainMigrateSetMaxSpeed with
>     VIR_DOMAIN_MIGRATE_MAX_SPEED_POSTCOPY flag, we would call
>     migrate-set-capabilities and disable all capabilities. However,
>     changing capabilities while migration is already running does not
>     make sense and our code should never be trying to do so. In fact
>     QEMU even reports an error if migrate-set-capabilities is called
>     during migration and qemuDomainMigrateSetMaxSpeed would fail with:
> 
>         internal error: unable to execute QEMU command
>         migrate-set-capabilities: There's a migration process in
>         progress
> 
>     With this patch qemuMigrationParamsApply never tries to call
>     migrate-set-capabilities outside of migration job. When the
>     capabilities bitmap is all zeros (which is its initial value after
>     qemuMigrationParamsNew), we just skip the command. But when any
>     capability bit is set to 1 by a non-migration job, we report an
>     error to highlight a bug in our code.

ACK, this explains it nicely.

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