[libvirt RFCv8 12/27] qemu: capabilities: add multifd to the probed migration capabilities

Claudio Fontana cfontana at suse.de
Wed May 11 13:25:49 UTC 2022


On 5/11/22 3:17 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 14:56:35 +0200, Claudio Fontana wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> is this patch specifically controversial?
>>
>> I ask because this is likely to be painful to maintain.
> 
> Note that in August of this year it will become obsolete. In august
> we'll be dropping support for debian-10 old qemu and thus bumping the
> minimum supported qemu to at least qemu-4.2.
> 
> Additionally we have a whole separate machinery for probing the
> migration capabilities via the migration parameters, so you can
> theoreticaly replace it by that code, especially since you'll need to
> set the multifd capability when attempting the migration anyways.
> 

Thanks for the information, is the whole separate machinery the part I am
doing in this series in patch 20/27 with the multifd-compression parameter?

Or something else entirely? Could you point me at the ropes so to speak?

Thanks,

C 



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