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Re: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH 0/3] versioned CPU models / per-machine-typ
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Eduardo Habkost |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH 0/3] versioned CPU models / per-machine-type aliases |
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Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:29:00 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) |
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:06:03PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 26.07.2012 15:53, schrieb Eduardo Habkost:
> > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 06:43:25PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >> Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> writes:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> This is the first try at a simple system to make the CPU model definitions
> >>> versioned (to allow them to get bug fixes while allowing migration from
> >>> older
> >>> versions and keeping command-line compatibility), and per- machine-type
> >>> aliases
> >>> for compatibility.
> >>>
> >>> The lack of CPU model versioning is blocking multiple bug fixes that are
> >>> necessary on CPU model definitions, but can't be included today because
> >>> they
> >>> would break migration.
> >>>
> >>> Later, after this gets in (or at least gets some feedback), I plan to
> >>> send a
> >>> proposal for a machine-friendly CPU feature / CPU model probing interface
> >>> that
> >>> libvirt could use.
> >>
> >> This isn't the right approach. The CPU properties should be exposed as
> >> QOM properties which then allows the machine type globals to be used to
> >> control stuff like this.
> >
> > I would like to use global properties for this, but the obstacles I have
> > found were:
> >
> > - As far as I can see in the code, global properties are usable only by
> > qdev objects, and CPUs were not qdevfied yet
>
> After Hackweek I plan to put together some compromise or even multiple
> alternatives. We definitely need this for multiple open issues.
>
> > - The per-machine-type properties I need to set are for CPU models, not
> > CPUs.
> > - For example: if we fix the Nehalem CPU model by changing the "level"
> > field, we need to make the pc-1.1 and lower machine-types to keep
> > the old "level" value, but only on the Nehalem CPU model
>
> Is that part crying for CPU subclasses? Or what is the problem there?
> (Still have a mail about -cpudef in my drafts folder, need to post RFC.)
Maybe, yes.
If we have the subclasses, then the only problem I see is that global
properties currently require qdev. Maybe having a simple interface
non-qdev objects can use to query for global properties would solve
that?
--
Eduardo
Re: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH 0/3] versioned CPU models / per-machine-type aliases, Anthony Liguori, 2012/07/25