[libvirt] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] Allow multiple monitor devices (v2)
Avi Kivity wrote:
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It's true that events don't correlate directly to commands, but they
do correlate to the state of the system and that is affected by commands.
events are time stamped. In non-human mode, I think command responses
should be time stamped too so that a management tool knows when the
event was generated and can correlate the system state to the particular
event.
>> Sure, we'll need to make sure notifications don't
mix with command
>> responses, and that all commands are acked (the (qemu) prompt serves
>> that purpose now), but it seems to me do be a lot easier for the
>> management end.
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> FWIW, you can have asynchronous completion of monitor commands. See
> migration as an example. The (qemu) prompt is the ack that the
> command is finished. You can only have one async command per monitor
> session which is why you need multiple monitors.
Migration has the -d switch to be truly async (not to wait). We need
an async notifier to tell us migration has finished or failed.
Multiplexing multiple monitor sessions AFAICT is going to require a
non-human mode. But it's totally orthogonal to this patch set. You
could implement it today if you wanted.
>
> If we had a non-human monitor mode, I think it would be fine to have
> many monitors multiplexed over a single channel. The internal
> monitor abstraction doesn't change.
I don't understand why we need to multiplex many monitors over one
channel. Let's keep one monitor, but with the ability to send
notifications to the other end.
I don't understand how you think it would be implemented. Each command
is going to have a unique 'Monitor *' associated with it. How that ends
up being displayed to the user/management tool is irrelevant. Right
now, you can only have one 'Monitor *' active on a single "channel" at a
time. This is mostly a matter of output format. I don't see how we can
keep the monitor output consistent and compatible as it stands today and
still support multiple 'Monitor *'s active in a single channel.
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Regards,
Anthony Liguori