> -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]> > Sent: 26 August 2020 14:54 > To: Paul Durrant <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; Paul Durrant <[email protected]>; > Julien Grall <[email protected]>; > Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>; George Dunlap > <[email protected]>; Ian Jackson > <[email protected]>; Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>; Wei > Liu <[email protected]>; > Volodymyr Babchuk <[email protected]>; Roger Pau Monné > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/9] xen/common: introduce a new framework for > save/restore of 'domain' context > > On 26.08.2020 15:32, Jan Beulich wrote: > > On 18.08.2020 12:30, Paul Durrant wrote: > >> v7: > >> - Add an option to domain_load_end() to ignore unconsumed data, which will > >> be needed by a subsequent patch > > > > May I suggest to name the parameter "ignore_tail" instead of > > "ignore_data", as typically you don't mean to ignore all of > > it? > > Hmm, looking at patch 7 it's indeed all of the body which gets > ignored. Not sure what the longer term expectations here are. >
I think it is useful to be able to consume as much or as little of a record as is needed. Paul
