From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Mike D. Day" <ncmike@us.ibm.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:43:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060112174313.GE10513@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43C66B56.8030801@us.ibm.com>
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:44:38AM -0500, Mike D. Day wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >What other, specific sysfs files are you going to want to create?
> >What is the hierarchy going to look like?
> >What is the contents of the file going to look like?
>
> You make a very good point. We have not agreed on the heirarchy and file
> contents, and we need to do so before continuing.
> Some _very rough_ ideas include
>
> /sys/xen/version/{major minor extra version build}
> /sys/xen/domain/{dom0 dom1 ... domn} (each domain could be a dir. with
> attributes)
> /sys/xen/hypervisor/{scheduler cpu memory}
> /sys/xen/migrate/{hosts_to, hosts_from}
>
> These will be text files with simple attrributes. Most will be
> read-only. It is kind of fun to think about creating a domain by doing
> something like
>
> cat $domain_config > /sys/xen/domain/new
>
> but there are some ugly aspects of doing so. Likewise it would be good
> to add a potential migration host by writing an ip address to
> /sys/xen/migrate/hosts_to
>
> Again, we need to get this solidified before going further.
Ok, feel free to come back when you get this information sorted out.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-11 17:17 [RFC] [PATCH] sysfs support for Xen attributes Mike D. Day
2006-01-11 17:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-11 17:56 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-01-11 18:45 ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-11 23:07 ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 0:23 ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 0:57 ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 1:49 ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 2:17 ` [Xen-devel] " Mark Williamson
2006-01-12 7:10 ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 14:44 ` [Xen-devel] " Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 14:53 ` Mark Williamson
2006-01-12 15:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 15:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 17:34 ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 18:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 17:43 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-01-12 9:10 ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 14:52 ` [Xen-devel] " Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 15:28 ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 15:50 ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 12:54 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-12 13:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-12 14:42 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-01-12 17:39 ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 18:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 18:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-12 18:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-12 19:11 ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 19:31 ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 19:08 ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 19:18 ` Mike D. Day
2006-01-12 19:30 ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 17:38 ` Greg KH
2006-01-12 1:32 ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 10:04 ` [Xen-devel] " Keir Fraser
2006-01-12 15:14 ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 15:06 ` Mark Williamson
2006-01-12 15:26 ` Keir Fraser
2006-01-12 15:37 ` Dave Hansen
2006-01-12 15:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-01-11 23:31 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-12 19:01 ` Greg KH
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