block: add throttle block filter driver

block/throttle.c uses existing I/O throttle infrastructure inside a
block filter driver. I/O operations are intercepted in the filter's
read/write coroutines, and referred to block/throttle-groups.c

The driver can be used with the syntax
-drive driver=throttle,file.filename=foo.qcow2,throttle-group=bar

which registers the throttle filter node with the ThrottleGroup 'bar'. The
given group must be created beforehand with object-add or -object.

Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <el13635@mail.ntua.gr>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/block/throttle-groups.h b/include/block/throttle-groups.h
index 82f030523f..e2fd0513c4 100644
--- a/include/block/throttle-groups.h
+++ b/include/block/throttle-groups.h
@@ -76,5 +76,10 @@ void coroutine_fn throttle_group_co_io_limits_intercept(ThrottleGroupMember *tgm
 void throttle_group_attach_aio_context(ThrottleGroupMember *tgm,
                                        AioContext *new_context);
 void throttle_group_detach_aio_context(ThrottleGroupMember *tgm);
+/*
+ * throttle_group_exists() must be called under the global
+ * mutex.
+ */
+bool throttle_group_exists(const char *name);
 
 #endif