[libvirt] [PATCH v4 08/11] CPU selection infrastructure

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:21:42PM +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> Each driver supporting CPU selection must fill in host CPU capabilities.
> When filling them, drivers for hypervisors running on the same node as
> libvirtd can use cpuNodeData() to obtain raw CPU data. Other drivers,
> such as VMware, need to implement their own way of getting such data.
> Raw data can be decoded into virCPUDefPtr using cpuDecode() function.
> 
> When implementing virConnectCompareCPU(), a hypervisor driver can just
> call cpuCompareXML() function with host CPU capabilities.
> 
> For each guest for which a driver supports selecting CPU models, it must
> set the appropriate feature in guest's capabilities:
> 
>     virCapabilitiesAddGuestFeature(guest, "cpuselection", 1, 0)
> 
> Actions needed when a domain is being created depend on whether the
> hypervisor understands raw CPU data (currently CPUID for i686, x86_64
> architectures) or symbolic names has to be used.
> 
> Typical use by hypervisors which prefer CPUID (such as VMware and Xen):
> 
> - convert guest CPU configuration from domain's XML into a set of raw
>   data structures each representing one of the feature policies:
> 
>     cpuEncode(conn, architecture, guest_cpu_config,
>               &forced_data, &required_data, &optional_data,
>               &disabled_data, &forbidden_data)
> 
> - create a mask or whatever the hypervisor expects to see and pass it
>   to the hypervisor
> 
> Typical use by hypervisors with symbolic model names (such as QEMU):
> 
> - get raw CPU data for a computed guest CPU:
> 
>     cpuGuestData(conn, host_cpu, guest_cpu_config, &data)
> 
> - decode raw data into virCPUDefPtr with a possible restriction on
>   allowed model names:
> 
>     cpuDecode(conn, guest, data, n_allowed_models, allowed_models)
> 
> - pass guest->model and guest->features to the hypervisor
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com>
> ---
>  configure.in             |   20 +
>  src/Makefile.am          |   12 +
>  src/cpu/cpu.c            |  242 ++++++++++
>  src/cpu/cpu.h            |  129 +++++
>  src/cpu/cpu_generic.c    |  123 +++++
>  src/cpu/cpu_generic.h    |   32 ++
>  src/cpu/cpu_map.c        |  130 ++++++
>  src/cpu/cpu_map.h        |   41 ++
>  src/cpu/cpu_x86.c        | 1162 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/cpu/cpu_x86.h        |   31 ++
>  src/cpu/cpu_x86_data.h   |   45 ++
>  src/libvirt_private.syms |   10 +
>  12 files changed, 1977 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 src/cpu/cpu.c
>  create mode 100644 src/cpu/cpu.h
>  create mode 100644 src/cpu/cpu_generic.c
>  create mode 100644 src/cpu/cpu_generic.h
>  create mode 100644 src/cpu/cpu_map.c
>  create mode 100644 src/cpu/cpu_map.h
>  create mode 100644 src/cpu/cpu_x86.c
>  create mode 100644 src/cpu/cpu_x86.h
>  create mode 100644 src/cpu/cpu_x86_data.h

  Okay, I just add to remove empty lines at end of C files and extend
po/POTFILES.in with the new files with translatable comments,

Daniel

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