[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] Transport Open vSwitch per-port data during live migration

Kyle Mestery (kmestery) kmestery at cisco.com
Thu Oct 11 21:06:23 UTC 2012


On Oct 1, 2012, at 10:18 AM, Kyle Mestery <kmestery at cisco.com> wrote:
> This series of commits has the end goal of allowing per-port data stored
> in the Open vSwitch DB to be transported during live migration. This is
> done by first providing a generic infrastructure for transporting network
> data, adding some utility functions specific to Open vSwitch, and hooking
> the two together.
> 
> The framework provided is generic in that other networking data could be
> transferred as well by simply adding in additional hooks as needed.
> 
> Kyle Mestery (3):
>  Add the ability for the Qemu V3 migration protocol to include    
>    transporting network configuration. A generic framework is proposed
>        with this patch to allow for the transfer of opaque data.
>  Add utility functions for Open vSwitch to both save     per-port data
>    before a live migration, and restore the     per-port data after a
>    live migration.
>  Transport Open vSwitch per-port data during live     migration by
>    using the utility functions    
>    virNetDevOpenvswitchGetMigrateData() and    
>    virNetDevOpenvswitchSetMigrateData().
> 
> src/libvirt_private.syms        |   2 +
> src/qemu/qemu_migration.c       | 263 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> src/util/virnetdevopenvswitch.c |  70 +++++++++++
> src/util/virnetdevopenvswitch.h |   6 +
> 4 files changed, 339 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


Just curious if anyone has had a chance to review this series yet? I believe I've addressed all the comments
I've received so far. I may need to rebase and send it out again since it's been almost 2 weeks since I sent it
out.

Thanks,
Kyle




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