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    "name": "[0/4,RFC] hw/nvme: add basic live migration support",
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        "From": "Alexander Mikhalitsyn <alexander@mihalicyn.com>",
        "To": "qemu-devel@nongnu.org",
        "Cc": "Jesper Devantier <foss@defmacro.it>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,\n Klaus Jensen <its@irrelevant.dk>, Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>,\n qemu-block@nongnu.org, Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,\n Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@futurfusion.io>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH 0/4] [RFC] hw/nvme: add basic live migration support",
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    "content": "From: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@futurfusion.io>\n\nDear friends,\n\nThis patchset adds basic live migration support for\nQEMU emulated NVMe device.\n\nImplementation has some limitations:\n- only one NVMe namespace is supported\n- SMART counters are not preserved\n- CMB is not supported\n- PMR is not supported\n- SPDM is not supported\n- SR-IOV is not supported\n- AERs are not fully supported\n\nI believe this is something I can support in next patchset versions or\nseparately on-demand (when usecase appears). But I wanted to share this\nfirst version as RFC to get some feedback on this in case if I'm approaching\nit wrong.\n\nKind regards,\nAlex\n\nAlexander Mikhalitsyn (4):\n  hw/nvme: add migration blockers for non-supported cases\n  hw/nvme: split nvme_init_sq/nvme_init_cq into helpers\n  migration: add VMSTATE_VARRAY_OF_POINTER_TO_STRUCT_ALLOC\n  hw/nvme: add basic live migration support\n\n hw/nvme/ctrl.c              | 505 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---\n hw/nvme/nvme.h              |   5 +\n hw/nvme/trace-events        |   9 +\n include/migration/vmstate.h |  21 ++\n migration/vmstate-types.c   |  88 +++++++\n 5 files changed, 598 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)"
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