On 12 April 2018 at 08:02, Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org> wrote: > On 04/11/2018 09:21 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >> Interestingly, your patch comes less than 2 weeks after Lai Jiangshan's >> 'add capability to bypass the shared memory' >> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg07511.html > > I missed that. > >> which is the only other case I think we've got of someone trying to >> avoid transmitting a block. >> >> We should try and merge the two sets to make them consistent; you've >> covered some more cases (the other patch wasn't expected to work with >> Postcopy anyway). >> (At this rate then we can expect another 20 for the year....) >> >> We should probably have: >> 1) A bool is_migratable_block(RAMBlock *) >> 2) A RAMBLOCK_FOREACH_MIGRATABLE(block) macro that is like >> RAMBLOCK_FOREACH but does the call to is_migratable_block >> >> then the changes should be mostly pretty tidy.
We also want this so we can enable migration when the "mmio-exec" feature is being used without accidentally trying to migrate the ramblock used for execute-from-device: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-07/msg05237.html thanks -- PMM
