docs: Document adaptive timeout for qemu monitor

Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>

diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index 04783aa5e6834b80f6b260d30e3866aee812cf66..3500df7147414fea93a4a4df8b74fbf422091a68 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -43,7 +43,20 @@
       </change>
     </section>
     <section title="Bug fixes">
-      <change/>
+      <change>
+        <summary>
+          QEMU: Use adaptive timeout for connecting to monitor
+        </summary>
+        <description>
+          When starting qemu, libvirt waits for qemu to create the monitor
+          socket which libvirt connects to. Historically, there was sharp 30
+          second timeout after which the qemu process was killed. This
+          approach is suboptimal as in some scenarios with huge amounts of
+          guest RAM it can take a minute or more for kernel to allocate and
+          zero out pages for qemu. The timeout is now flexible and computed by
+          libvirt at domain startup.
+        </description>
+        </change>
     </section>
   </release>
   <release version="v3.1.0" date="2017-03-03">