Re: [PATCH v5] docs/designs: re-work the xenstore migration document...

[Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

On 28/04/2020 16:06, Paul Durrant wrote:
> From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ... to specify a separate migration stream that will also be suitable for
> live update.
>
> The original scope of the document was to support non-cooperative migration
> of guests [1] but, since then, live update of xenstored has been brought into
> scope. Thus it makes more sense to define a separate image format for
> serializing xenstore state that is suitable for both purposes.
>
> The document has been limited to specifying a new image format. The mechanism
> for acquiring the image for live update or migration is not covered as that
> is more appropriately dealt with by a patch to docs/misc/xenstore.txt. It is
> also expected that, when the first implementation of live update or migration
> making use of this specification is committed, that the document is moved from
> docs/designs into docs/specs.
>
> NOTE: It will only be necessary to save and restore state for active xenstore
>        connections, but the documentation for 'RESUME' in xenstore.txt implies
>        otherwise. That command is unused so this patch deletes it from the
>        specification.
>
> [1] See 
> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=docs/designs/non-cooperative-migration.md
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>

I will wait until tomorrow afternoon (BST) to give an opportunity to 
other to comment.
Cheers,

--
Julien Grall