Re: [PATCH 2/8] qapi/qom: Introduce smp-cache object

[Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 01:47:16PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:47:16 +0100
> From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] qapi/qom: Introduce smp-cache object
> 
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 01:35:17PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi Markus,
> > >> SmpCachesProperties and SmpCacheProperties would put the singular
> > >> vs. plural where it belongs.  Sounds a bit awkward to me, though.
> > >> Naming is hard.
> > >
> > > For SmpCachesProperties, it's easy to overlook the first "s".
> > >
> > >> Other ideas, anybody?
> > >
> > > Maybe SmpCacheOptions or SmpCachesPropertyWrapper?
> > 
> > I wonder why we have a single QOM object to configure all caches, and
> > not one QOM object per cache.
> 
> Previous versions of this series were augmenting the existing
> -smp command line.

Ah, yes, since -smp, as a sugar option of -machine, doesn't support
JSON. In -smp, we need to use keyval's style to configure as:

-smp caches.0.name=l1i,caches.0.topo=core

I think JSON is the more elegant way to go, so I chose -object.

> Now the design has switched to use -object,
> I agree that it'd be simplest to just have one -object flag
> added per cache level we want to defnie.
> 

OK.

Thanks,
Zhao