On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 23/03/2015 15:28, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> I'd like to know what problems exactly this patch fixes. The test >> case for throttling actually relies on the virtual clock so it can be >> stepped deterministically. What other legitimate cases are there >> where throttling is used outside a running qemu-system process? > > Alberto brought up block jobs. It is debatable whether block jobs > should be stopped while the VM is.
This patch is unrelated to block jobs. Block jobs use their own ratelimiting mechanism and the realtime clock (not vm clock). Stefan
