[libvirt] [RFC PATCH 00/12] qemu: add support to hot-plug/unplug cpu device

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jan 21 09:42:13 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 04:00:52PM +0800, Zhu Guihua wrote:
> If you apply the folowing patchset
> [PATCH v3 0/7] cpu: add device_add foo-x86_64-cpu support
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-01/msg01552.html,
> and [PATCH v2 00/11] cpu: add i386 cpu hot remove support
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-01/msg01557.html,
> qemu can support hotplug and hot-unplug cpu device.
> 
> So this patch series will make libvirt support hotplug and hot-unplug cpu
> device for qemu driver, and now only supports one cpu driver which is
> 'qemu64-x86_64-cpu'.
> 
> The cpu device's xml like this:
> <cpu driver='qemu64-x86_64-cpu' apic_id='3'>

Do we really need to expose this 'qemu64-x86_64-cpu' string to apps.
It feels like a rather low level QEMU private implementation detail
to me that apps should not need to know or care about. I think libvirt
should always just do the right thing to make cpu hotplug work.

Regards,
Daniel
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