Per previous discussion [1,2], this patch deprecates query-migrationthreads
command.

To summarize, the major reason of the deprecation is due to no sensible way
to consume the API properly:

  (1) The reported list of threads are incomplete (ignoring destination
      threads and non-multifd threads).

  (2) For CPU pinning, there's no way to properly pin the threads with
      the API if the threads will start running right away after migration
      threads can be queried, so the threads will always run on the default
      cores for a short window.

  (3) For VM debugging, one can use "-name $VM,debug-threads=on" instead,
      which will provide proper names for all migration threads.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240930195837.825728-1-peterx@redhat.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241011153417.516715-1-peterx@redhat.com

Reviewed-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241022194501.1022443-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
---
 docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
 qapi/migration.json       | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index ce38a3d0cf..100ba66fe1 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -147,6 +147,14 @@ options are removed in favor of using explicit ``blockdev-create`` and
 ``blockdev-add`` calls. See :doc:`/interop/live-block-operations` for
 details.
 
+``query-migrationthreads`` (since 9.2)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+To be removed with no replacement, as it reports only a limited set of
+threads (for example, it only reports source side of multifd threads,
+without reporting any destination threads, or non-multifd source threads).
+For debugging purpose, please use ``-name $VM,debug-threads=on`` instead.
+
 Incorrectly typed ``device_add`` arguments (since 6.2)
 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
diff --git a/qapi/migration.json b/qapi/migration.json
index 3af6aa1740..a605dc26db 100644
--- a/qapi/migration.json
+++ b/qapi/migration.json
@@ -2284,12 +2284,17 @@
 #
 # Returns information of migration threads
 #
+# Features:
+#
+# @deprecated: This command is deprecated with no replacement yet.
+#
 # Returns: @MigrationThreadInfo
 #
 # Since: 7.2
 ##
 { 'command': 'query-migrationthreads',
-  'returns': ['MigrationThreadInfo'] }
+  'returns': ['MigrationThreadInfo'],
+  'features': ['deprecated'] }
 
 ##
 # @snapshot-save:
-- 
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