2010/11/30 Dor Laor <dlaor@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 11/29/2010 06:23 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Yoshiaki Tamura >> <tamura.yoshiaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> 2010/11/29 Paul Brook<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>>>> >>>>>> If devices incorrectly claim support for live migration, then that >>>>>> should >>>>>> also be fixed, either by removing the broken code or by making it >>>>>> work. >>>>> >>>>> I totally agree with you. >>>>> >>>>>> AFAICT your current proposal is just feeding back the results of some >>>>>> fairly specific QA testing. I'd rather not get into that game. The >>>>>> correct response in the context of upstream development is to file a >>>>>> bug >>>>>> and/or fix the code. We already have config files that allow third >>>>>> party >>>>>> packagers to remove devices they don't want to support. >>>>> >>>>> Sorry, I didn't get what you're trying to tell me. My plan would >>>>> be to initially start from a subset of devices, and gradually >>>>> grow the number of devices that Kemari works with. While this >>>>> process, it'll include what you said above, file a but and/or fix >>>>> the code. Am I missing what you're saying? >>>> >>>> My point is that the whitelist shouldn't exist at all. Devices either >>>> support >>>> migration or they don't. Having some sort of separate whitelist is the >>>> wrong >>>> way to determine which devices support migration. >>> >>> Alright! >>> >>> Then if a user encounters a problem with Kemari, we'll fix Kemari >>> or the devices or both. Correct? >> >> Is this a fair summary: any device that supports live migration workw >> under Kemari? > > It might be fair summary but practically we barely have live migration > working w/o Kemari. In addition, last I checked Kemari needs additional > hooks and it will be too hard to keep that out of tree until all devices get > it. IIUC, the additional hook you're mentioning is the hack for virtio. Michael has commented on it, I hope his patch make the hack unnecessary. Yoshi > >> >> (If such a device does not work under Kemari then this is a bug that >> needs to be fixed in live migration, Kemari, or the device.) >> >> Stefan > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
