Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: Switch to host monotonic clock for IO throttling

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

This patch is unrelated to block jobs.  Block jobs use their own
ratelimiting mechanism and the realtime clock (not vm clock).

Stefan