On 10.10.25 02:43, Raphael Norwitz wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
<[email protected]> wrote:

On 09.10.25 22:09, Raphael Norwitz wrote:
A small question here but will review more thoroughly pending feedback
on my overall comments.


I really hope you didn't spent much time on these 28-31 patches :/


I spent much more time on the cleanups :)

On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
<[email protected]> wrote:


[..]

--- a/migration/options.c
+++ b/migration/options.c
@@ -269,6 +269,13 @@ bool migrate_local_char_socket(void)
       return s->capabilities[MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_LOCAL_CHAR_SOCKET];
   }

+bool migrate_local_vhost_user_blk(void)
+{
+    MigrationState *s = migrate_get_current();
+

Where was MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_LOCAL_VHOST_USER_BLK added/defined?

It is generated by QAPI code generator.

Exactly, it's defined by 'local-vhost-user-blk' member inside 
'MigrationCapability':

{ 'enum': 'MigrationCapability',
    'data': ['xbzrle', 'rdma-pin-all', 'auto-converge',

             ...

             { 'name': 'local-vhost-user-blk', 'features': [ 'unstable' ] } ] }


and after build, the generated code is in build/qapi/qapi-types-migration.h, as 
a enum:

typedef enum MigrationCapability {
      MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_XBZRLE,

      ,,,

      MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_LOCAL_VHOST_USER_BLK,
      MIGRATION_CAPABILITY__MAX,
} MigrationCapability;


In v2, I'll follow the interface of virtio-net series, look at

https://patchew.org/QEMU/[email protected]/[email protected]/

so, it would be migration parameter instead of capability, like

      QMP migrate-set-parameters {... backend-transfer = ["vhost-user-blk"] }

and to enable both vhost-user-blk and virtio-net-tap together:

      QMP migrate-set-parameters {... backend-transfer = ["vhost-user-blk", 
"virtio-net-tap"] }


Why do we need two separate migration parameters for vhost-user-blk
and virtio-net-tap? Why not have a single parameter for virtio local
migrations and, if it is set, all backends types which support local
migration can advertise and take advantage of it?

As I describe in the commit message 
https://patchew.org/QEMU/[email protected]/[email protected]/
 :


Why not simple boolean? To simplify migration to further versions,
when more devices will support backend-transfer migration.

Alternatively, we may add per-device option to disable backend-transfer
migration, but still:

1. It's more comfortable to set same capabilities/parameters on both
source and target QEMU, than care about each device.

2. To not break the design, that machine-type + device options +
migration capabilities and parameters are fully define the resulting
migration stream. We'll break this if add in future more
backend-transfer support in devices under same backend-transfer=true
parameter.





+    return s->capabilities[MIGRATION_CAPABILITY_LOCAL_VHOST_USER_BLK];
+}
+

[..]


--
Best regards,
Vladimir


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Best regards,
Vladimir

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