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RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]: as requested, disable_migrate support for libx

To: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>, Xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]: as requested, disable_migrate support for libxl
From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 07:50:56 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Dulloor <dulloor@xxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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(Keir, can you also put this in 4.0-testing, assuming
the big libxl backport to 4.0-testing is done?)

> I'll feel bad taking a free beer off you for this one Dan :)

Don't feel bad, says Dan who lives in the US state with
the highest volume of beer production in the US.

Thanks... there are some subtle but significant
performance advantages that are lost if this
flag is not settable.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gianni Tedesco [mailto:gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 8:43 AM
> To: Xen-devel
> Cc: Dan Magenheimer; Dulloor; Stefano Stabellini
> Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH]: as requested, disable_migrate support for
> libxl
> 
> I'll feel bad taking a free beer off you for this one Dan :)
> 
>  libxl.h      |    1 +
>  libxl_dom.c  |    1 +
>  xl_cmdimpl.c |    5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff -r a29ebc288d0e tools/libxl/libxl.h
> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl.h     Mon Jul 05 16:12:59 2010 +0100
> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl.h     Tue Jul 06 15:38:48 2010 +0100
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
>      uint32_t target_memkb;
>      uint32_t video_memkb;
>      uint32_t shadow_memkb;
> +    bool disable_migrate;
>      const char *kernel;
>      int hvm;
>      union {
> diff -r a29ebc288d0e tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c
> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c Mon Jul 05 16:12:59 2010 +0100
> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c Tue Jul 06 15:38:48 2010 +0100
> @@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
>              (info->hvm) ? info->max_memkb :
>              (info->max_memkb + info->u.pv.slack_memkb));
>      xc_domain_set_tsc_info(ctx->xch, domid, info->tsc_mode, 0, 0, 0);
> +    xc_domain_disable_migrate(ctx->xch, info->disable_migrate);
> 
>      if (info->hvm) {
>          unsigned long shadow;
> diff -r a29ebc288d0e tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
> --- a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c        Mon Jul 05 16:12:59 2010 +0100
> +++ b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c        Tue Jul 06 15:38:48 2010 +0100
> @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@
>      b_info->max_vcpus = 1;
>      b_info->max_memkb = 32 * 1024;
>      b_info->target_memkb = b_info->max_memkb;
> +    b_info->disable_migrate = 0;
>      if (c_info->hvm) {
>          b_info->shadow_memkb = 0; /* Set later */
>          b_info->video_memkb = 8 * 1024;
> @@ -360,6 +361,7 @@
>      printf("\t(tsc_mode %d)\n", b_info->tsc_mode);
>      printf("\t(max_memkb %d)\n", b_info->max_memkb);
>      printf("\t(target_memkb %d)\n", b_info->target_memkb);
> +    printf("\t(disable_migrate %d)\n", b_info->disable_migrate);
> 
>      printf("\t(image\n");
>      if (c_info->hvm) {
> @@ -551,6 +553,9 @@
>          : libxl_get_required_shadow_memory(b_info->max_memkb,
>                                             b_info->max_vcpus);
> 
> +    if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "disable_migrate", &l))
> +        b_info->disable_migrate = l;
> +
>      if (!xlu_cfg_get_long(config, "tsc_mode", &l))
>          b_info->tsc_mode = l;
> 
> 
> 
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