Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] migration: differentiate between pages and bytes

[Li, Liang Z]

> (Li special edition)
> 
> Current migration code returns number of bytes transferred and from there
> we decide if we.have sent something or not.  Problem, we need two results:
> number of pages written, and number of bytes written (depending on
> compression, zero pages, etc, it is not possible to derive one value from the
> other).
> 
> So, I changed all relevant function to return the number of written pages,
> and then pass as uint64_t *bytes_transferred to update the written bytes.
> 
> On current code, makes things a bit easier to understand, but is not strictely
> necesary.  But for the compression patches from Li, it makes a big difference,
> we can return that we have written a page, even if we have just started the
> write, but having writtten in reality zero bytes.
> 
> Once there, I add doxygen documentation to all function that I touched (yes,
> I was long due).
> 
> save_block_hdr really saved headers for pages, not blocks.  Rename it, and
> simplify the interface.
> 
> Li, does this make your life easier?  I hope so.  Should make really easy to
> remove the one_bytes_sent "hack", and allow my other suggestions.

It's great!  the 'one_byte_sent' always make me feel uncomfortable. Thanks, 
Juan.

> Comments?

The Chinese New Year coming, I am going to take leaves for about 2 weeks.
I am not sure if I can access Internet during the vacation, so maybe I can't 
give reply
for a long time.  But I will review your patches and change mine according to 
your changes
and suggestions.

Happy Chinese New Year! Now, I'm going to catch the train ...

Liang