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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add maxvcpus support

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add maxvcpus support
From: Michal Novotny <minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:14:02 +0100
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Hi,
this is patch to add maxvcpus support to xen xm command. It's using vcpu_avail bitmask and sets the number of vcpus to maxvcpus if present. If it's not present, old behavior is preserved.

In domain config file you can define it as follows:

 maxvcpus = 4
 vcpus = 2

this automatically sets vcpus to 4 and corresponding bitmask to present 2 vcpus in the guest with option to increase it up to 4 vcpus. If maxvcpus is not present, the old behavior for vcpus is preserved, ie. you can set vcpus to some number of vcpus to be used and the vcpu_avail is set appropriately to use all of them. Only when you use maxvcpus and vcpus new vcpu_avail value is calculated to show PV guest the desired number of vcpus only.

It's been tested using RHEL-5 32-bit PV guest with maxvcpus = 4 and vcpus = 2 and also the previous setup of vcpus = 2 only... In both cases I was able to use 'xm vcpu-set {domainId} {numberOfVCPUs}' to increase move vcpu count from 0 to maxvcpus/vcpus so it was working as designed.

Michal

Signed-off-By: Michal Novotny<minovotn@xxxxxxxxxx>


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