Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 09/29] [HACK] tools/libxc: save/restore v2 framework

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 11:37 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 11/09/14 11:34, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 18:10 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> >> For testing purposes, the environmental variable "XG_MIGRATION_V2" allows 
> >> the
> >> two save/restore codepaths to coexist, and have a runtime switch.
> >>
> >> It is indended that once this series is less RFC, the v2 framework will
> >> completely replace v1.
> > I think we are now at the point where this hack needs to be dropped from
> > the series.
> 
> One problem is remus.  My plan when dropping this patch was to drop all
> of xc_domain_{save/restore}.c as well, but without remus migration-v2
> support available, this will break existing set-ups.

Hrm, how is that going wrt 4.5 freeze?

> One option might be to have legacy and v2 sitting properly side-by-side
> in libxc for the transition period.

How long do you mean? Until 4.6?



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