Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/5] Introduce "-object iothread-group"

[Fam Zheng]

On Mon, 07/10 15:20, Fam Zheng wrote:
> Last time we've looked at "-object iothread,spawns=N" but it was a bit 
> abusive.
> A dedicated "iothread-group" class is cleaner from the interface point of 
> view.
> This series does that.
> 
> It has the same set of poll parameters as the existing "iothread" object, plus
> a "size" option to specify how many threads to start. Using iothread-group
> doesn't require the user to explicitly create the contained IOThreads. The
> IOThreads are created by the group object.
> 
> Internally, IOThreads share one AioContext.  This is to make it easier to 
> adapt
> this to the current data plane code (see the last patch). But it is an
> implementation detail, and will change depending on the block layer multiqueue
> needs.

I forgot to mention that the last patch depends on

    [PATCH v3 00/20] qdev: Introduce DEFINE_PROP_LINK

Fam