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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] libxl: update vcpus bitmap in retrieved guest config
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 17:46:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160607164627.GU25922@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465316547.15816.167.camel@citrix.com>

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 06:22:27PM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> 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?
> 

What would you like to see in a comment? I guess this is now moot
because the exact bits will be set.

Wei.

> Regards,
> Dario
> -- 
> <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere)
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli
> Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)
> 



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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-07 16:46 UTC|newest]

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
2016-06-07 16:46         ` Wei Liu [this message]
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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