[PATCH v1 4/4] NEWS.rst: document the pSeries NVDIMM auto-alignment revival

[Daniel Henrique Barboza]

On 9/17/20 1:02 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-09-14 at 23:42 -0300, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
>> +  * Re-introduce NVDIMM auto-alignment for pSeries Guests
>> +
>> +    This feature was removed in libvirt v6.7.0 due to its shortcomings, namely
>> +    the lack of consistency between domain XML and actual NVDIMM size the guest
>> +    is using, but it came at a too high of a cost - we broke existing guests
>> +    that were running in libvirt v.6.6.0 and now had to adjust the size by
>> +    hand. The auto-alignment was re-introduced back, allowing existing guests
>> +    to keep running as usual. But now, instead of auto-aligning in a transparent
>> +    manner, it is also changing the domain XML. This brings a good balance
>> +    between consistency of domain XML and guest information, and also relieves
>> +    the user of knowing the alignment internals of pSeries NVDIMMs.
> 
> I feel like this is needlessly verbose. How about something like
> 
>    * Re-introduce NVDIMM auto-alignment for pSeries Guests
> 
>      The auto-alignment logic was removed in v6.7.0 in favor of
>      requiring the size provided by the user to be already aligned;
>      however, this had the unintended consequence of breaking some
>      existing guests. v6.8.0 restores the previous behavior, and as an
>      improvement upon it also reflects the auto-aligned value in the
>      domain XML.
> 
> instead?


LGTM. I'll change it in v2.


Thanks,



DHB

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