[libvirt] [PATCH v2 1/8] Added public API to enable post-copy migration

Cristian Klein cristian.klein at cs.umu.se
Tue Sep 30 14:39:22 UTC 2014


Signed-off-by: Cristian Klein <cristian.klein at cs.umu.se>
---
 include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in | 1 +
 src/libvirt.c                | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
index 5217ab3..82f3aeb 100644
--- a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
+++ b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
@@ -1225,6 +1225,7 @@ typedef enum {
     VIR_MIGRATE_ABORT_ON_ERROR    = (1 << 12), /* abort migration on I/O errors happened during migration */
     VIR_MIGRATE_AUTO_CONVERGE     = (1 << 13), /* force convergence */
     VIR_MIGRATE_RDMA_PIN_ALL      = (1 << 14), /* RDMA memory pinning */
+    VIR_MIGRATE_POSTCOPY          = (1 << 15), /* enable (but don't start) post-copy */
 } virDomainMigrateFlags;
 
 
diff --git a/src/libvirt.c b/src/libvirt.c
index 6dc7c73..2c8ffbe 100644
--- a/src/libvirt.c
+++ b/src/libvirt.c
@@ -5265,6 +5265,7 @@ virDomainMigrateDirect(virDomainPtr domain,
  *                                 automatically when supported).
  *   VIR_MIGRATE_UNSAFE    Force migration even if it is considered unsafe.
  *   VIR_MIGRATE_OFFLINE Migrate offline
+ *   VIR_MIGRATE_POSTCOPY Enable (but don't start) post-copy
  *
  * VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELLED requires that VIR_MIGRATE_PEER2PEER be set.
  * Applications using the VIR_MIGRATE_PEER2PEER flag will probably
@@ -5291,6 +5292,12 @@ virDomainMigrateDirect(virDomainPtr domain,
  * can use either VIR_MIGRATE_NON_SHARED_DISK or
  * VIR_MIGRATE_NON_SHARED_INC as they are mutually exclusive.
  *
+ * If you want to enable post-copy migration you must set the
+ * VIR_MIGRATE_POSTCOPY flag. Once migration is active, you may
+ * start post-copy by calling virDomainMigrateStartPostCopy.
+ * When to start post-copy is entirely left to the user, libvirt
+ * only implements the necessary mechanism.
+ *
  * In either case it is typically only necessary to specify a
  * URI if the destination host has multiple interfaces and a
  * specific interface is required to transmit migration data.
-- 
1.9.1




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