OOB documentation is spread over qmp-spec.txt sections 2.2.1
Capabilities and 2.3 Issuing Commands. The amount of detail is a bit
distracting there. Move the meat of the matter to new section 2.3.1
Out of band execution.
Throw in a few other improvements while there:
* 2.2 Server Greetung: Drop advice to search entire capabilities
array; should be obvious.
* 3. QMP Examples
- 3.1 Server Greeting: Update greeting to current one. Now shows
capability "oob". Update qmp-intro.txt likewise.
- 3.2 Capabilities negotiation: Show client accepting capability
"oob".
- 3.7 Out-of-band execution: New.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
---
docs/interop/qmp-intro.txt | 13 +++----
docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/interop/qmp-intro.txt b/docs/interop/qmp-intro.txt
index 900d69d612..3dafa35ea6 100644
--- a/docs/interop/qmp-intro.txt
+++ b/docs/interop/qmp-intro.txt
@@ -52,13 +52,14 @@ Escape character is '^]'.
"QMP": {
"version": {
"qemu": {
- "micro": 50,
- "minor": 6,
- "major": 1
- },
- "package": ""
- },
+ "micro": 50,
+ "minor": 12,
+ "major": 2
+ },
+ "package": "v2.12.0-1763-g4e022f5ccd"
+ },
"capabilities": [
+ "oob"
]
}
}
diff --git a/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt b/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt
index 2bb492d1ea..e5f8116c54 100644
--- a/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt
+++ b/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt
@@ -77,8 +77,7 @@ The greeting message format is:
is the same of the query-version command)
- The "capabilities" member specify the availability of features beyond the
baseline specification; the order of elements in this array has no
- particular significance, so a client must search the entire array
- when looking for a particular capability
+ particular significance.
2.2.1 Capabilities
------------------
@@ -86,16 +85,7 @@ The greeting message format is:
Currently supported capabilities are:
- "oob": the QMP server supports "out-of-band" (OOB) command
- execution. For more details, please see the "run-oob" parameter in
- the "Issuing Commands" section below. Not all commands allow this
- "oob" execution. The "query-qmp-schema" command can be used to
- inspect which commands support "oob" execution.
-
-QMP clients can get a list of supported QMP capabilities of the QMP
-server in the greeting message mentioned above. By default, all the
-capabilities are off. To enable any QMP capabilities, the QMP client
-needs to send the "qmp_capabilities" command with an extra parameter
-for the requested capabilities.
+ execution, as described in section "2.3.1 Out-of-band execution".
2.3 Issuing Commands
--------------------
@@ -115,14 +105,38 @@ The format for command execution is:
- The "id" member is a transaction identification associated with the
command execution. It is required for all commands if the OOB -
capability was enabled at startup, and optional otherwise. The same
- "id" field will be part of the response if provided. The "id" member
- can be any json-value, although most clients merely use a
- json-number incremented for each successive command
-- The "control" member is optional, and currently only used for
- out-of-band execution. The handling or response of an "oob" command
- can overtake prior in-band commands. To enable "oob" handling of a
- particular command, just provide a control field with: { "control":
- { "run-oob": true } }
+ "id" field will be part of the response if provided. The "id"
+ member can be any json-value. A json-number incremented for each
+ successive command works fine.
+- The optional "control" member further specifies how the command is
+ to be executed. Currently, its only member is optional "run-oob".
+ See section "2.3.1 Out-of-band execution" for details.
+
+
+2.3.1 Out-of-band execution
+---------------------------
+
+The server normally reads, executes and responds to one command after
+the other. The client therefore receives command respones in issue
+order.
+
+With out-of-band execution enabled via capability negotiation (section
+4.), the server reads and queues commands as they arrive. It executes
+commands from the queue one after the other. Commands executed
+out-of-band jump the queue: they command get executed right away,
+possibly overtaking prior in-band commands. The client may therefore
+receive such a command's response before responses from prior in-band
+commands.
+
+To execute a command out-of-band, the client puts "run-oob": true into
+execute's member "control".
+
+If the client sends in-band commands faster than the server can
+execute them, the server will eventually drop commands to limit the
+queue length. The sever sends event COMMAND_DROPPED then.
+
+Only a few commands support out-of-band execution. The ones that do
+have "allow-oob": true in output of query-qmp-schema.
2.4 Commands Responses
----------------------
@@ -223,12 +237,13 @@ This section provides some examples of real QMP usage, in
all of them
3.1 Server greeting
-------------------
-S: { "QMP": { "version": { "qemu": { "micro": 50, "minor": 6, "major": 1 },
- "package": ""}, "capabilities": []}}
+S: { "QMP": {"version": {"qemu": {"micro": 50, "minor": 12, "major": 2},
+ "package": "v2.12.0-1763-g4e022f5ccd"}, "capabilities": ["oob"] } }
-3.2 Client QMP negotiation
---------------------------
-C: { "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
+3.2 Capabilities negotiation
+----------------------------
+
+C: { "execute": "qmp_capabilities", "arguments": { "enable": ["oob"] } }
S: { "return": {}}
3.3 Simple 'stop' execution
@@ -255,6 +270,15 @@ S: { "error": { "class": "GenericError", "desc": "Invalid
JSON syntax" } }
S: { "timestamp": { "seconds": 1258551470, "microseconds": 802384 },
"event": "POWERDOWN" }
+3.7 Out-of-band execution
+-------------------------
+
+C: { "execute": "migrate-pause", "id": 42, "control": { "run-oob": true } }
+S: { "id": 42,
+ "error": { "class": "GenericError",
+ "desc": "migrate-pause is currently only supported during
postcopy-active state" } }
+
+
4. Capabilities Negotiation
===========================
--
2.17.1
