Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] kvm: x86: export vCPU halted state to sysfs

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Eduardo Habkost (address@hidden) wrote:
> (CCing qemu-devel)
> 
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 09:21:59AM -0500, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 14:19:38 +0000
> > Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 12:15:54PM -0200, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> [...]
> > > > It would be also interesting to update QEMU QMP documentation to
> > > > clarify the arch-specific semantics of "halted".  
> > > 
> > > Any also especially clarify the awful performance implications of running
> > > this particular query command. In general I would not expect query-xxx
> > > monitor commands to interrupt all vcpus, so we should clearly warn about
> > > this !
> > 
> > Or deprecate it...
> 
> We could deprecate the expensive fields on query-cpus, and move
> them to a more expensive query-cpu-state command.  I believe most
> users of query-cpus are only interested in qom_path, thread_id,
> and topology info.

Would that data be available without the bql?  I ask because if it is
then a small advantage to having a separate command is that the command
could be marked OOB with Peter's new series and never take the lock.

Dave

> Markus, Eric: from the QAPI point of view, is it OK to remove
> fields between QEMU versions, as long as we follow our
> deprecation policy?
> 
> -- 
> Eduardo
> 
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