From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] libxl: update vcpus bitmap in retrieved guest config
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 18:22:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1465316547.15816.167.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160607160307.GN25922@citrix.com>
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On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 17:03 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 03:45:29PM +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> >
> > > --- a/tools/libxl/libxl.c
> > > +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.c
> > > @@ -7222,6 +7222,57 @@ void libxl_mac_copy(libxl_ctx *ctx,
> > > libxl_mac *dst, libxl_mac *src)
> > > (*dst)[i] = (*src)[i];
> > > }
> > >
> > > +static int libxl__update_avail_vcpus_qmp(libxl__gc *gc, uint32_t
> > > domid,
> > > + unsigned int max_vcpus,
> > > + libxl_bitmap *map)
> > > +{
> > > + unsigned int count, i;
> > > + int rc;
> > > +
> > > + /* For QEMU upstream we always need to return the number
> > > + * of cpus present to QEMU whether they are online or not;
> > > + * otherwise QEMU won't accept the saved state.
> > > + */
> > > + rc = libxl__qmp_query_cpus(gc, domid, &count);
> > > + if (rc) {
> > > + LOG(ERROR, "fail to get number of cpus for domain %d",
> > > domid);
> > > + goto out;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
> > > + libxl_bitmap_set(map, i);
> > What if I have cpu 1, 7 and 42 online, but all the other offline?
> >
> I have more or less the same question when I wrote this patch. At
> that
> time I thought the avail_vcpus was only used for generating -smp
> option
> to QEMU.
>
> In your example, you will have -smp 3,maxvcpus=$Y. I think the
> migration
> should still succeed. Furthermore, the cpu-add operation doesn't
> care,
> so it probably won't have visible effect.
>
> I agree it would be good to set the exact bits though -- if you can
> tell
> me which field to test.
>
Perhaps at least mention something about all this either in a comment
or in the changelog?
Regards,
Dario
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-07 11:23 [PATCH 0/3] libxl: update available vcpus map in retrieve configuration function Wei Liu
2016-06-07 11:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] libxl: introduce libxl__json_array_count Wei Liu
2016-06-07 11:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] libxl: introduce libxl__qmp_query_cpus Wei Liu
2016-06-07 11:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] libxl: update vcpus bitmap in retrieved guest config Wei Liu
2016-06-07 14:45 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-06-07 16:03 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-07 16:22 ` Dario Faggioli [this message]
2016-06-07 16:46 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-07 17:05 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-06-07 16:36 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-06-07 16:39 ` Wei Liu
2016-06-14 16:31 ` Ian Jackson
2016-06-14 16:39 ` Wei Liu
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