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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>,
	Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: Switch to host monotonic clock for IO throttling
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:49:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55102804.20808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QUhFstLR-Nayi5ixo4q5_bUVvnvo+a33b8i-bD877EAGg@mail.gmail.com>



On 23/03/2015 15:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> I'd like to know what problems exactly this patch fixes.  The test
> case for throttling actually relies on the virtual clock so it can be
> stepped deterministically.  What other legitimate cases are there
> where throttling is used outside a running qemu-system process?

Alberto brought up block jobs.  It is debatable whether block jobs
should be stopped while the VM is.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-23 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-23  5:24 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: Switch to host monotonic clock for IO throttling Fam Zheng
2015-03-23  8:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-23  8:56 ` Alberto Garcia
2015-03-23 13:56 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-03-23 13:58   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-23 14:28     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-03-23 14:49       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-03-23 15:00         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-03-23 15:02           ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-24  1:17       ` Fam Zheng
2015-03-24 13:29         ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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