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

[Zhu Guihua]

On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 09:57 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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'.
> 
> Also I'm wondering how this interacts with CPU topology. eg lets say
> you configure a 16 vCPU guest, and set topology to 2 sockets, 4 cores,
> 2 threads.  Does this hotplug allow you to plug/unplug individual
> threads - ie each invididual vCPU, or does it only allow plug/unplug
> of sockets - ie 8 vCPUs at a time in this topology.
> 
> 

qemu has not interacted with CPU topology so for.
So now we focus on this feature's realization in a simple way.

Regards,
Zhu

> Regards,
> Daniel