Before IOThread was its own object, each virtio-blk device would create
its own internal thread. We need to preserve this behavior for
backwards compatibility when users do not specify -device
virtio-blk-pci,iothread=<id>.
This patch changes how the internal IOThread object is created.
Previously we used the monitor object_add() function, which is really a
layering violation. The problem is that this needs to assign a name but
we don't have a name for this internal object.
Generating names for internal objects is a pain but even worse is that
they may collide with user-defined names.
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> suggested that the internal IOThread
object should not be named. This way the conflict cannot happen and we
no longer need object_add().
One gotcha is that internal IOThread objects will not be listed by the
query-iothreads command since they are not named. This is okay though
because query-iothreads is new and the internal IOThread is just for
backwards compatibility. New users should explicitly define IOThread
objects.
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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