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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 6/7] s390x/cpu: Add error handling to cpu cre


From: David Hildenbrand
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 6/7] s390x/cpu: Add error handling to cpu creation
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 11:02:11 +0100

> > After all the discussions about
> > -device-add s390-cpu,id=XX
> > 
> > As substitute/addition in the future for hotplug it is the straightforward
> > approach to allow setting the id as property. Nobody knows what crazy new
> > hotplug method we will come up with. But doing it the device way with 
> > properties
> > cannot be wrong. And the id is a fundamental concept of a vcpu (cpu-add 
> > id=XX).  
> with device_add 'id' is not a vcpu concept but and arbitrary user supplied 
> string
> property owned by Device. But since s390 matches current x86 thread based 
> model it could be migrated to device_add the same way, for example:
>   device_add s390-cpu,thread=XX

So should we name the property thread then?
Looks like the id property is really special.

What do you suggest?

> 
> > 
> > So I'd like to avoid reworking everything again, to realize later that we
> > want it as a property and rewriting it once again.  
> for s390, the thing about not rewriting everything once again could be
> replacing places where cpu_index is used with CpuClass.arch_id().
> arch_id() defaults to cpu_index but you can later override it with
> your own id (whatever s390 uses for identifying cpus on baremetal)
> so switching to device_add won't break anything.

Okay, this way we could get rid of cpu_index later.

David




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