From: Jonah Palmer <jonah.palmer@oracle.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: mst@redhat.com, qemu_oss@crudebyte.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/8] hmp, qmp: Add commands to introspect virtio devices
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 03:54:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ee63834-cc75-ca3a-6333-ebbfc77f445a@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YXk+JvPuOglFoerz@redhat.com>
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On 10/27/21 07:55, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 07:41:41AM -0400, Jonah Palmer wrote:
>> This series introduces new QMP/HMP commands to dump the status of a
>> virtio device at different levels.
>>
>> [Jonah: Rebasing previous patchset from Oct. 5 (v7). Original patches
>> are from Laurent Vivier from May 2020.
>>
>> Rebase from v7 to v8 includes an additional assert to make sure
>> we're not returning NULL in virtio_id_to_name(). Rebase also
>> includes minor additions/edits to qapi/virtio.json.]
>>
>> 1. Main command
>>
>> HMP Only:
>>
>> virtio [subcommand]
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> List all sub-commands:
>>
>> (qemu) virtio
>> virtio query -- List all available virtio devices
>> virtio status path -- Display status of a given virtio device
>> virtio queue-status path queue -- Display status of a given virtio queue
>> virtio vhost-queue-status path queue -- Display status of a given vhost queue
>> virtio queue-element path queue [index] -- Display element of a given virtio queue
> I don't see a compelling reason why these are setup as sub-commands
> under a new "virtio" top level. This HMP approach and the QMP 'x-debug-query'
> naming just feels needlessly different from the current QEMU practices.
>
> IMHO they should just be "info" subcommands for HMP. ie
>
> info virtio -- List all available virtio devices
> info virtio-status path -- Display status of a given virtio device
> info virtio-queue-status path queue -- Display status of a given virtio queue
> info virtio-vhost-queue-status path queue -- Display status of a given vhost queue
> info virtio-queue-element path queue [index] -- Display element of a given virtio queue
>
> While the corresponding QMP commands ought to be
>
> x-query-virtio
> x-query-virtio-status
> x-query-virtio-queue-status
> x-query-virtio-vhost-queue-status
> x-query-virtio-queue-element
>
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
Sure, I don't mind changing it to this if this is what others would prefer.
If there aren't any objections, I'll switch it to this in the next revision.
Jonah
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-27 11:41 [PATCH v8 0/8] hmp,qmp: Add commands to introspect virtio devices Jonah Palmer
2021-10-27 11:41 ` [PATCH v8 1/8] virtio: drop name parameter for virtio_init() Jonah Palmer
2021-10-27 11:41 ` [PATCH v8 2/8] virtio: add vhost support for virtio devices Jonah Palmer
2021-10-27 11:41 ` [PATCH v8 3/8] qmp: add QMP command x-debug-query-virtio Jonah Palmer
2021-11-04 15:15 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-11-05 8:24 ` Jonah Palmer
2021-10-27 11:41 ` [PATCH v8 4/8] qmp: add QMP command x-debug-virtio-status Jonah Palmer
2021-11-04 15:37 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-11-05 8:36 ` Jonah Palmer
2021-10-27 11:41 ` [PATCH v8 5/8] qmp: decode feature & status bits in virtio-status Jonah Palmer
2021-10-27 11:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-27 12:18 ` Laurent Vivier
2021-10-28 7:56 ` Jonah Palmer
2021-10-28 7:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-10-27 11:41 ` [PATCH v8 6/8] qmp: add QMP commands for virtio/vhost queue-status Jonah Palmer
2021-10-27 11:41 ` [PATCH v8 7/8] qmp: add QMP command x-debug-virtio-queue-element Jonah Palmer
2021-10-27 11:41 ` [PATCH v8 8/8] hmp: add virtio commands Jonah Palmer
2021-11-05 7:23 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-11-05 8:40 ` Jonah Palmer
2021-10-27 11:55 ` [PATCH v8 0/8] hmp, qmp: Add commands to introspect virtio devices Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-10-28 7:54 ` Jonah Palmer [this message]
2021-10-28 9:04 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-11-05 7:26 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-11-05 8:58 ` Jonah Palmer
2021-11-05 8:50 ` Markus Armbruster
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