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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 18:09:06 +0000
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Add 'namethreads' suboption to --name
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, lersek@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

* Michael S. Tsirkin (mst@redhat.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 03:20:38PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> > 
> > Add flag storage to qemu-thread-* to store the namethreads flag
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> 
> How about a pattern?  threads='vmfoo-%s' and have qemu fill in
> specific strings for %s.

The size of the name is limited to 16bytes according to the manpage
for pthread_setname_sn, so things start to get a bit squashed
if you try and have a vmname and anything else useful in the one name.

Dave
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK