[libvirt] PATCH: allow to set nvcpus = 0

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Nov 24 19:30:20 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 07:59:27PM +0300, Evgeniy Sokolov wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:44:07PM +0300, Evgeniy Sokolov wrote:
> >>OpenVZ uses all CPUs available in system
> >>- by default (number of CPUs did not set)
> >>- number of CPUs = 0
> >>
> >>Currenty, libvirt don't allow to set nvcpus = 0
> >>
> >>Attached patch removes limitation in libvirt set nvcpu = 0, but add it 
> >>to each driver which allow to set number of virtual CPU. For OpenVZ set 
> >>default number of CPUs = 0.
> >
> >This is the wrong way to handle this. If OpenVZ allows the container
> >to use all the host CPUs, then the vCPUs number should reflect the
> >number of pCPUs, not 0. So when loading the openvz config, if there
> >is no CPUS=  setting in the config file, the driver should fill in
> >the number of host pCPUs. Likewise, when setting the openvz config,
> >if the vCPUs in the XML is >=  pCPUs, then it should just leave
> >out the CPUS= setting, so OpenVZ uses all CPUs.
> >
> It is not like in OpenVZ, but good way. Attached patch implement it.

ACK, this patch looks good to me - I'll commit it shortly.

Daniel
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