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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] tmem ABI change... backwards compatibility unneces
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Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] tmem ABI change... backwards compatibility unnecessary? |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> |
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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:46:28 -0700 |
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On 09/01/2010 07:36 AM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> I am inclined to update the Xen tmem implementation
> to only support v1 and gracefully fail v0. This would
> result in only a performance loss (as if tmem were
> disabled) for newly launched tmem-v0-enabled guests,
> but live-migration between old tmem-v0 Xen and new
> tmem-v1 Xen machines would fail, and saved tmem-v0
> guests will not be able to be restored on a tmem-v1
> Xen machine. I would plan to update both pre-4.0.2
> and unstable (future 4.1) to only support v1.
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> I believe these restrictions are reasonable at this
> point in the tmem lifecycle, though they may not
> be reasonable in the near future; should the tmem
> ABI need to be revised from v1 to v2, I understand
> backwards compatibility will be required.
>
> Comments or questions? (If agreeable, positive public
> acks appreciated.)
Sounds fine to me. Given that pvops doesn't have tmem support in it at
all yet, I don't think the tmem userbase can be all that big. Once its
in pvops/upstream, this kind of decision will take a lot more care...
J
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