Thank You, Brian and Stefan! -a
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 01:44:48PM -0400, Al Patel wrote: > > In the current system, what are the extra threads? > > The set of thread is dynamic because worker threads are started and > terminated depending on guest activity. You cannot make assumptions > about threads and QEMU provides monitor commands that expose the tids. > > > Secondly, I am currently not using libvirt and having to start qemu from > > command line. I still want to pin the vcpu to a pcpu and want to use > > taskset on a thread. Unless I know which thread is emulating the vcpu > > how can I pin that thread? > > > > Do you have any other thoughts on the pinning part? > > Use libvirt if you can. It will save you a ton of time. > > If you really cannot use it, you can still look at its source code to > understand how it does what it does. See qemuProcessDetectVcpuPIDs() in > libvirt and the QEMU query-cpus QMP command. > > Stefan >
