Il 11/04/2013 17:35, Michael R. Hines ha scritto: > Nevertheless, the initial "burst" of the bulk phase round is still > important to optimize, and I would like to know if the maintainer > would accept this API for disabling the scan or not
I'm not a maintainer, but every opinion counts... and my opinion is "not yet". Maybe for 1.6, and only after someone else tried it out. That's why it's important to merge the code early. > We think it's important because the total migration time can be much > smaller with high-throughput RDMA links by optimizing the bulk-phase > round and that lower total migration time is very valuable to many of > our workloads, in addition to the low-downtime benefits you get with > RDMA. > > I have expensive numbers only for the bulk phase round. Other than that, > I would be breaking confidentiality outside of the paper we have already > published. Fair enough. Paolo
