> -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > Sent: 26 August 2020 14:54 > To: Paul Durrant <p...@xen.org> > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Paul Durrant <pdurr...@amazon.com>; > Julien Grall <jul...@xen.org>; > Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>; George Dunlap > <george.dun...@citrix.com>; Ian Jackson > <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>; Stefano Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>; Wei > Liu <w...@xen.org>; > Volodymyr Babchuk <volodymyr_babc...@epam.com>; Roger Pau Monné > <roger....@citrix.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] xen/common: introduce a new framework for > save/restore of 'domain' context > > On 26.08.2020 15:32, Jan Beulich wrote: > > On 18.08.2020 12:30, Paul Durrant wrote: > >> v7: > >> - Add an option to domain_load_end() to ignore unconsumed data, which will > >> be needed by a subsequent patch > > > > May I suggest to name the parameter "ignore_tail" instead of > > "ignore_data", as typically you don't mean to ignore all of > > it? > > Hmm, looking at patch 7 it's indeed all of the body which gets > ignored. Not sure what the longer term expectations here are. >
I think it is useful to be able to consume as much or as little of a record as is needed. Paul
