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[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Save state error handling (kill off no_


From: Alex Williamson
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Save state error handling (kill off no_migrate)
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:46:09 -0600

On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 15:41 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 10/05/2010 03:35 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > I was thinking of making KVM VMs with assigned PCI devices
> > unsavable/unmigratable, but I wasn't thrilled with the
> > no_migrate solutions.  The more generic solutions seems to be
> > simply letting save handlers return an error if the device can't
> > be migrated.  This is also much more generic than a one-way
> > bit flip of the no_migrate flag.  For a vmsd based registration,
> > the pre_save() routine seems to be the right place to allow
> > devices to abort.  The series also carries the error back through
> > all the vmstate callers.  If this looks good, I'll give it some
> > more testing and submit as non-RFC.  Thanks,
> >    
> 
> Doesn't this mean that we don't fail the migration until after 
> transferring all of the memory contents?

That's the case with the current no_migrate implementation too, it
doesn't get called until qemu_savevm_state_complete().  Thanks,

Alex





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