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| author | Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> | 2018-02-07 16:41:43 +0100 |
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| committer | Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> | 2018-02-14 10:23:15 +0000 |
| commit | c2eb7f213a15b870f7a35ec961e4f1e0f7e2df91 (patch) | |
| tree | d97ed8ee249531ba79ef5ad9d3939a8340e6562b | |
| parent | 96994fd1e4e0da2a3b5d585a58621722199c67c9 (diff) | |
migration: improve documentation of postcopy-ram
This capability must have the same value on both source and destination,
otherwise migration fails (commit 875fcd013ab6 "migration: incoming
postcopy advise sanity checks").
Let's write it down in various places where postcopy-ram is documented.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <151801810352.29167.4832480228518630626.stgit@bahia.lan>
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/migration.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hmp-commands.hx | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | qapi/migration.json | 10 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/migration.rst b/docs/devel/migration.rst index bf97080dac..9d1b7657f0 100644 --- a/docs/devel/migration.rst +++ b/docs/devel/migration.rst @@ -387,8 +387,8 @@ doesn't finish in a given time the switch is made to postcopy. Enabling postcopy ----------------- -To enable postcopy, issue this command on the monitor prior to the -start of migration: +To enable postcopy, issue this command on the monitor (both source and +destination) prior to the start of migration: ``migrate_set_capability postcopy-ram on`` diff --git a/hmp-commands.hx b/hmp-commands.hx index 15620c94d3..d26eb4119b 100644 --- a/hmp-commands.hx +++ b/hmp-commands.hx @@ -1041,7 +1041,8 @@ ETEXI .params = "", .help = "Followup to a migration command to switch the migration" " to postcopy mode. The postcopy-ram capability must " - "be set before the original migration command.", + "be set on both source and destination before the " + "original migration command .", .cmd = hmp_migrate_start_postcopy, }, diff --git a/qapi/migration.json b/qapi/migration.json index 4cd3d13158..7f465a1902 100644 --- a/qapi/migration.json +++ b/qapi/migration.json @@ -327,8 +327,10 @@ # to speed up convergence of RAM migration. (since 1.6) # # @postcopy-ram: Start executing on the migration target before all of RAM has -# been migrated, pulling the remaining pages along as needed. NOTE: If -# the migration fails during postcopy the VM will fail. (since 2.6) +# been migrated, pulling the remaining pages along as needed. The +# capacity must have the same setting on both source and target +# or migration will not even start. NOTE: If the migration fails during +# postcopy the VM will fail. (since 2.6) # # @x-colo: If enabled, migration will never end, and the state of the VM on the # primary side will be migrated continuously to the VM on secondary @@ -742,8 +744,8 @@ # @migrate-start-postcopy: # # Followup to a migration command to switch the migration to postcopy mode. -# The postcopy-ram capability must be set before the original migration -# command. +# The postcopy-ram capability must be set on both source and destination +# before the original migration command. # # Since: 2.5 # |