qemu_command: Introduce qemuBuildThreadContextProps()
The aim of thread-context object is to set affinity on threads
that allocate memory for a memory-backend-* object. For instance:
-object '{"qom-type":"thread-context","id":"tc-ram-node0","node-affinity":[3]}' \
-object '{"qom-type":"memory-backend-memfd","id":"ram-node0","hugetlb":true,\
"hugetlbsize":
2097152,"share":true,"prealloc":true,"prealloc-threads":8,\
"size":
15032385536,"host-nodes":[3],"policy":"preferred",\
"prealloc-context":"tc-ram-node0"}' \
allocates 14GiB worth of memory, backed by 2MiB hugepages from
host NUMA node 3, using 8 threads. If it weren't for
thread-context these threads wouldn't have any affinity and thus
theoretically could be scheduled to run on CPUs of different NUMA
node (which is what I saw occasionally).
Therefore, whenever we are pinning memory (IOW setting host-nodes
attribute), we can generate thread-context object with the same
affinity.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@redhat.com>