Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6

2015-07-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 15:27 +0800, Yang Hongyang wrote: > > On 07/17/2015 06:18 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Wei Liu writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for > > COLO in v4.6"): > > > Ian and Ian, anything to add? What are your opinions? >

Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6

2015-07-20 Thread Lars Kurth
Forgot to attach the graph referred to (or it is not showing up in the archives) Lars ] > On 20 Jul 2015, at 07:02, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been travelling on Friday and wanted to appeal for calm on this > particular issue. Let's try and focus on making as much progress as we

Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6

2015-07-20 Thread Lars Kurth
Hi all, I have been travelling on Friday and wanted to appeal for calm on this particular issue. Let's try and focus on making as much progress as we can on the patch series which have freeze exceptions (or partial freeze exception) this week. Continuing a debate on what may have gone wrong wit

Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6

2015-07-20 Thread Yang Hongyang
On 07/17/2015 06:18 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: Wei Liu writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6"): Ian and Ian, anything to add? What are your opinions? I think COLO is an exciting and important feature. Unfortunately I agree with Wei that at this stage t

Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6

2015-07-17 Thread Eddie Dong
> If I can take one example, 11/25 "tools/libxc: support to resume uncooperative > HVM guests". Based on my current understanding this is even a bugfix. Sadly > it > is not quite ready (or at least, wasn't last night). But with a few more > days we > can probably get much of this cleanup an

Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6

2015-07-17 Thread Eddie Dong
> If I can take one example, 11/25 "tools/libxc: support to resume uncooperative > HVM guests". Based on my current understanding this is even a bugfix. Sadly > it > is not quite ready (or at least, wasn't last night). But with a few more > days we > can probably get much of this cleanup an

Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6

2015-07-17 Thread Wei Liu
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:18:21AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Wei Liu writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in > v4.6"): > > Ian and Ian, anything to add? What are your opinions? > > I think COLO is an exciting and important feature. > &

Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6

2015-07-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Wei Liu writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6"): > Ian and Ian, anything to add? What are your opinions? I think COLO is an exciting and important feature. Unfortunately I agree with Wei that at this stage taking both series as they currently stand in

Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6

2015-07-16 Thread Dong, Eddie
> > There are currently 50 patches related to COLO pending reviews and acks > (25 pre + 25 COLO itself). Some pre patches are acked but there are still some > comments regarding implementation details in the pre patches and COLO itself > is > still lacking review. Further more, migration v2 is h

Re: [Xen-devel] Request a freeze exception for COLO in v4.6

2015-07-16 Thread Wei Liu
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 06:17:17PM +0800, Yang Hongyang wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to request a freeze exception for COLO. > > 1.The benefits > * COLO is a VM fault tolerance solution. Currently Remus provides this > function, but it buffers all output packets, the latency is unacceptable