On 6/7/22 16:59, Peter Krempa wrote: > 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 > Ah, good point. But there's nothing QEMU specific about this so let me put it into hypervisor agnostic validator. Which in turn allows me to amend this change to the 06/15 patch where parser/formatter is introduced. Michal