On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 05:04:48PM +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
On Tue 08 Aug 2017 04:56:20 PM CEST, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:So basically if we have anonymous groups, we accept limits in the driver options but only without a group-name.In the commit message you do however have limits and a group name, is that a mistake? -drive driver=throttle,file.filename=foo.qcow2, \ limits.iops-total=...,throttle-group=barSorry this wasn't clear, I'm actually proposing to remove limits from the throttle driver options and only create/config throttle groups via -object/object-add.Sorry I think it was me who misunderstood :-) Anyway in the new command-line API I would be more inclined to have limits defined using "-object throttle-group" and -drive would only reference the group id. I understand that this implies that it wouldn't be possible to create anonymous groups (at least not from the command line), is that a problem?
We can accept anonymous groups if a user specifies limits but not a group name in the throttle driver. (The only case where limits would be acccepted)
Not creating eponymous throttle groups via the throttle driver means we don't need throttle_groups anymore, since even anonymous ones don't need to be accounted for in a list. I will send a new revision for this series but I can make this change in a later patch if everyone agrees.
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