Re: [Qemu-devel] Throttling groups vs filter nodes

[Manos Pitsidianakis]

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 05:05:17PM +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> On Sat 27 May 2017 09:56:03 AM CEST, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > A quirk in the current implementation is that the throttling limits
> > for the group are overwritten by each -drive throttling.group=group0.
> > Limits for all but the last -drive in a group are ignored.
>   - bps or iops != 0   -> set the I/O limits of a throttling group. The
>                           selected device is moved to that group if it
>                           wasn't there yet.
>
>   - bps and iops == 0  -> remove a device from a throttling group
>                           without touching that group's I/O limits.

These are very unintuitive. However, even without considering backwards 
compatibility, I think that using -object notation (eg "object-add 
throttle-group,id=foo,iops=...) is intuitive in the case of groups, but 
not when you need individual limits for each device as the syntax would 
be too verbose.  Of course the old interface covers that.  

In any case, is having multiple interfaces a problem or not? And, is 
using QOM straightforward implementation-wise?