Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: Switch to host monotonic clock for IO throttling

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 23/03/2015 15:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> I'd like to know what problems exactly this patch fixes.  The test
> case for throttling actually relies on the virtual clock so it can be
> stepped deterministically.  What other legitimate cases are there
> where throttling is used outside a running qemu-system process?

Alberto brought up block jobs.  It is debatable whether block jobs
should be stopped while the VM is.

Paolo