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author | Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@nutanix.com> | 2021-01-25 17:15:21 +0000 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-01-25 17:15:21 +0000 |
commit | 405bd61b0e9cd06bf553ebcc7f21f8e581c84cfa (patch) | |
tree | b9682efa239242c6690ddd5ff405474a756ede81 /include | |
parent | 82ea5b11c5bdae59709477de00d50b7353dabf6d (diff) | |
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explain migration workflow when saving state (#252)
Signed-off-by: Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@nutanix.com>
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diff --git a/include/libvfio-user.h b/include/libvfio-user.h index 9cc0191..3ee22ec 100644 --- a/include/libvfio-user.h +++ b/include/libvfio-user.h @@ -347,6 +347,20 @@ typedef enum { VFU_MIGR_STATE_RESUME } vfu_migr_state_t; + +/* + * Callbacks during the pre-copy and stop-and-copy phases. + * + * The client executes the following steps to copy migration data: + * + * 1. get_pending_bytes: device must return amount of migration data + * 2. prepare_data: device must prepare migration data + * 3. read_data: device must provide migration data + * + * The client repeats the above steps until there is no more migration data to + * return (the device must return 0 from get_pending_bytes to indicate that + * there are no more migration data to be consumed in this iteration). + */ typedef struct { /* migration state transition callback */ |