On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 14:52:52 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > Now that we have a capability that reflects whether QEMU is > capable of setting iothread pool size, let's introduce a > validator check to make sure users are not trying to use this > feature with QEMU that doesn't support it. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > src/qemu/qemu_validate.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c b/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c > index 9b6245e6d7..7d11ae2c92 100644 > --- a/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c > +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c > @@ -384,6 +384,27 @@ qemuValidateDomainDefCpu(virQEMUDriver *driver, > } > > > +static int > +qemuValidateDomainDefIOThreads(const virDomainDef *def, > + virQEMUCaps *qemuCaps) > +{ > + size_t i; > + > + for (i = 0; i < def->niothreadids; i++) { > + virDomainIOThreadIDDef *iothread = def->iothreadids[i]; > + > + if ((iothread->thread_pool_min != -1 || iothread->thread_pool_max != -1) && > + !virQEMUCapsGet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_IOTHREAD_THREAD_POOL_MAX)) { > + virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED, "%s", > + _("thread_pool_min and thread_pool_max is not supported by this QEMU binary")); > + return -1; > + } You'll also need a check that 'thread_pool_max', if supplied, must be more or equal to 'thread_pool_min', otherwise: $ virsh dumpxml cd | grep thread_pool <iothread id='3' thread_pool_min='4' thread_pool_max='3'/> $ virsh start cd error: Failed to start domain 'cd' error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2022-06-07T14:58:52.420554Z qemu-system-x86_64: bad thread-pool-min/thread-pool-max values