Re: Adding VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG_MEM_SLOTS to 5.1 release notes

2020-08-06 Thread Peter Maydell
On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 13:22, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 06:50, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Peter, can you pls allow Raphael wiki access? I don't remember how it's > > done ... > > Anybody with an account can create a new account for somebody > else via the

Re: Adding VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG_MEM_SLOTS to 5.1 release notes

2020-08-06 Thread Peter Maydell
On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 06:50, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Peter, can you pls allow Raphael wiki access? I don't remember how it's done > ... Anybody with an account can create a new account for somebody else via the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount page. (It's only not

Re: Adding VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG_MEM_SLOTS to 5.1 release notes

2020-08-05 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
A bit verbose. I shortened it to A new feature, VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIGURE_MEM_SLOTS, has been added to the vhost-user protocol. VMs with vhost-user device backends which support this feature will not be subject to the current max RAM slots limit of 8 and will be able to hot-add memory as

Re: Adding VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG_MEM_SLOTS to 5.1 release notes

2020-08-05 Thread Raphael Norwitz
ping On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 9:17 PM Raphael Norwitz wrote: > > How about something like: > "A new feature, VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIGURE_MEM_SLOTS, has been > added to the vhost-user protocol which, when negotiated, changes the > way QEMU transmit memory regions to backend devices. Instead of

Re: Adding VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG_MEM_SLOTS to 5.1 release notes

2020-07-29 Thread Raphael Norwitz
How about something like: "A new feature, VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIGURE_MEM_SLOTS, has been added to the vhost-user protocol which, when negotiated, changes the way QEMU transmit memory regions to backend devices. Instead of sending all regions in a single VHOST_USER_SET_MEM_TABLE message, QEMU

Re: Adding VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG_MEM_SLOTS to 5.1 release notes

2020-07-29 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 09:16:10PM -0600, Raphael Norwitz wrote: > Hi mst, > > Looking at the current changelog > https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.1#virtio, I don't see any mention of > the VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG_MEM_SLOTS protocol feature. It is a > user visible change so shouldn't we add

Re: Adding VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG_MEM_SLOTS to 5.1 release notes

2020-07-29 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 7:16 AM Raphael Norwitz wrote: > > Hi mst, > > Looking at the current changelog > https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/5.1#virtio, I don't see any mention of > the VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_CONFIG_MEM_SLOTS protocol feature. It is a > user visible change so shouldn't we add a