The preempt mode requires the capability to assign channel for each of the page, while the compression logic will currently assign pages to different compress thread/local-channel so potentially they're incompatible.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com> --- migration/migration.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c index bb8bbddfe4..844bca1ff6 100644 --- a/migration/migration.c +++ b/migration/migration.c @@ -1336,6 +1336,17 @@ static bool migrate_caps_check(bool *cap_list, error_setg(errp, "Postcopy preempt requires postcopy-ram"); return false; } + + /* + * Preempt mode requires urgent pages to be sent in separate + * channel, OTOH compression logic will disorder all pages into + * different compression channels, which is not compatible with the + * preempt assumptions on channel assignments. + */ + if (cap_list[MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_COMPRESS]) { + error_setg(errp, "Postcopy preempt not compatible with compress"); + return false; + } } return true; -- 2.32.0