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Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command
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Philippe Mathieu-Daudé |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Mar 2021 10:02:59 +0100 |
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On 3/16/21 7:51 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> On 3/11/21 5:11 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> [...]
>>> diff --git a/accel/accel-qmp.c b/accel/accel-qmp.c
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 00000000000..f16e49b8956
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/accel/accel-qmp.c
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
>>> +/*
>>> + * QEMU accelerators, QMP commands
>>> + *
>>> + * Copyright (c) 2021 Red Hat Inc.
>>> + *
>>> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
>>> + */
>>> +
>>> +#include "qemu/osdep.h"
>>> +#include "qapi/qapi-commands-machine.h"
>>> +
>>> +static const Accelerator accel_list[] = {
>>> + ACCELERATOR_QTEST,
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_TCG
>>> + ACCELERATOR_TCG,
>>> +#endif
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_KVM
>>> + ACCELERATOR_KVM,
>>> +#endif
>>
>> ...would it be worth compiling the enum to only list enum values that
>> were actually compiled in? That would change it to:
>>
>> { 'enum': 'Accelerator',
>> 'data': [ 'qtest',
>> { 'name': 'tcg', 'if': 'defined(CONFIG_TCG)' },
>> ...
These accelerator definitions are supposed to be poisoned in generic
code... But I like the simplicity of your suggestion, so I'll give it
a try and see what happens with removing the poisoned definitions.
> Makes introspection more useful. Management applications can get the
> information the list of compiled-in accelerators from query-qmp-schema.
> They don't have to be taught to use query-accels.
>
> In fact, query-accels becomes useless except as a tool to force
> visibility of Accelerator in query-qmp-schema. We wouldn't have to
> force if we had CLI introspection that shows the type of -accel's
> parameter @accel. Adding a query command is a common work-around for
> our anemic CLI introspection capabilities.
>
> The query command could be made more useful than introspection if it
> reflected run time state, i.e. it showed an accelerator only when the
> host system actually supports it. Can't say how practical that would
> be.
>
>>>
>>> +AcceleratorInfoList *qmp_query_accels(Error **errp)
>>> +{
>>> + AcceleratorInfoList *list = NULL, **tail = &list;
>>> +
>>> + for (unsigned i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(accel_list); i++) {
>>> + AcceleratorInfo *info = g_new0(AcceleratorInfo, 1);
>>> +
>>> + info->name = accel_list[i];
>>> +
>>> + QAPI_LIST_APPEND(tail, info);
>>> + }
>>> +
>>> + return list;
>>> +}
>
> You could then use something like
>
> for (accel = 0; accel < ACCELERATOR__MAX; accel++) {
> AcceleratorInfo *info = g_new0(AcceleratorInfo, 1);
>
> info->name = Accelerator_str(accel);
>
> QAPI_LIST_APPEND(tail, info);
> }
>
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Paolo Bonzini, 2021/03/12
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Andrew Jones, 2021/03/12
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Paolo Bonzini, 2021/03/12
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Claudio Fontana, 2021/03/12
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Paolo Bonzini, 2021/03/12
Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Eric Blake, 2021/03/15
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Markus Armbruster, 2021/03/16
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Paolo Bonzini, 2021/03/16
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command,
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <=
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2021/03/16
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Markus Armbruster, 2021/03/16
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2021/03/16
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Markus Armbruster, 2021/03/16
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Thomas Huth, 2021/03/16
- Re: [PATCH 1/6] accel: Introduce 'query-accels' QMP command, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2021/03/16
[PATCH 2/6] tests/qtest: Add qtest_probe_accel() method, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2021/03/11
[PATCH 4/6] qtest/arm-cpu-features: Check KVM availability at runtime, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2021/03/11