[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] qemu: add debug-threads support

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 13:54:57 +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>> QEMU (somewhere around 2.0) added a new sub-option to the -name flag
>> -name debug-threads=on
>>
>> This causes the naming of individual QEMU threads to be helpful; e.g.
>>  'CPU/KVM 0' or 'migration' these show up in top once the H key is
>>  pressed, and also show up in a core dump, making it easy to figure
>>  out which thread is which.
>>
>> The following 2 patches add a capability check and a qemu-conf key to
>> enable debug-threads.
>
> Is there any reason against enabling this unconditionally? It sounds
> like a nice thing to have if possible so I'd just always enable it if
> QEMU supports that...
>

That would be fine for me, I just wanted to be as careful as qemu is.
They were probably thinking some monitoring tool could be confused. I
suppose in libvirt case, there should not be furthere such monitoring,
and libvirt is not confused. So why not? Keep the first patch,
simplify the second?

thanks


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Marc-André Lureau