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| author | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2021-01-27 15:47:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2021-02-04 13:20:29 +0100 |
| commit | 781386afd2b809a8a63b65e9bfb645c4a8abdf50 (patch) | |
| tree | 901c6f981124f033b26251f358bb870e0e6b465d /docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt | |
| parent | 1841f0112c4d8a0a561462eed25fc4357fe40afc (diff) | |
docs/interop/qmp-spec: Document the request queue limit
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210127144734.2367693-1-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt b/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt index cdf5842555..b0e8351d5b 100644 --- a/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt +++ b/docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt @@ -133,9 +133,11 @@ to pass "id" with out-of-band commands. Passing it with all commands is recommended for clients that accept capability "oob". If the client sends in-band commands faster than the server can -execute them, the server will stop reading the requests from the QMP -channel until the request queue length is reduced to an acceptable -range. +execute them, the server will stop reading requests until the request +queue length is reduced to an acceptable range. + +To ensure commands to be executed out-of-band get read and executed, +the client should have at most eight in-band commands in flight. Only a few commands support out-of-band execution. The ones that do have "allow-oob": true in output of query-qmp-schema. |