Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Change name of live migration thread

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Pankaj Gupta (address@hidden) wrote:
> Change the name of live migration thread from 'migration' 
> to 'qemu_vm_migration' to identify it clearly. 'migration'
> is a generic word and kernel also has  tasks for process
> migration with the name 'migration/cpu#'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <address@hidden>
> ---
>  migration/migration.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
> index f498ab8..6ebd606 100644
> --- a/migration/migration.c
> +++ b/migration/migration.c
> @@ -1969,7 +1969,7 @@ void migrate_fd_connect(MigrationState *s)
>      }
>  
>      migrate_compress_threads_create();
> -    qemu_thread_create(&s->thread, "migration", migration_thread, s,
> +    qemu_thread_create(&s->thread, "qemu_vm_migration", migration_thread, s,
>                         QEMU_THREAD_JOINABLE);

Are you sure that works?  For me it doesn't change the name.

There's a maximum length that I think is somewhere around 16 characters and that
name is too long.

Changing it to "qemu_migration" seems to work.

Dave

>      s->migration_thread_running = true;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.7.4
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK