Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio 9p live migration patches

2013-04-04 Thread Benoît Canet
There is still the need to serialize the fid linked list. I saw in the current code base that virtio-blk.c was using the old API to serialize a linked list. Does writing support for serializing linked list in vmstate worth it ? Or is it better to keep the old API to serialize ? Regards Benoît

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio 9p live migration patches

2013-04-04 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 04/04/2013 14:37, Benoît Canet ha scritto: > We also need to ensure new 9p request are blocked. Migration runs with the VM paused. It would be simplest to flush all the requests before migrating, that's what the block layer does. (The migration of requests we have in virtio-blk, scsi-disk etc

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio 9p live migration patches

2013-04-04 Thread Benoît Canet
Thanks for the explanations I'll start working on the patchset. Best regards Benoît > Le Wednesday 03 Apr 2013 à 12:03:13 (+0530), Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit : > Benoît Canet writes: > > > Thanks a lot, > > > > Do you have an idea of what is left to be done on it ? > > > > It has to rewritten

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio 9p live migration patches

2013-04-02 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Benoît Canet writes: > Thanks a lot, > > Do you have an idea of what is left to be done on it ? > It has to rewritten with the new model with respect to migration. Also these is problem of how much time does it take to migrate the fid information ?. We also need to ensure new 9p request are bloc

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio 9p live migration patches

2013-04-02 Thread Benoît Canet
Thanks a lot, Do you have an idea of what is left to be done on it ? Best regards Benoît > Le Wednesday 03 Apr 2013 à 00:00:53 (+0530), Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit : > Benoît Canet writes: > > > Hello Aneesh, > > > > I am interested in working on 9p live migration. > > > > I remember that you h

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio 9p live migration patches

2013-04-02 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Benoît Canet writes: > Hello Aneesh, > > I am interested in working on 9p live migration. > > I remember that you had some live migration related patches on github. > > I don't find these patches anymore. Do you still have them somewhere ? > What was missing from it ? > Had to redo the tree, bec

[Qemu-devel] Virtio 9p live migration patches

2013-04-02 Thread Benoît Canet
Hello Aneesh, I am interested in working on 9p live migration. I remember that you had some live migration related patches on github. I don't find these patches anymore. Do you still have them somewhere ? What was missing from it ? Best regards Benoît