[libvirt] [PATCH] memtune: Add min_guarantee to the virsh tool

[Nikunj A. Dadhania]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:49:05 +0200, Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 03:00:21PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> > 2010/10/18 Nikunj A. Dadhania <nikunj at linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
[...]
> > > tools/virsh.c: Add new memory tunable "min_guarantee", currently the user
> > > would be ESX.
> > 
> > Well, who said ESX could support this? :)
> > 
> > I didn't, I just said that you added min_guarantee to libvirt, but
> > didn't expose it in virsh.
> 
>   Hum ... I assumed there was an use case for it.
> On the other hand since it's now part of libvirt API as
> VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_MIN_GUARANTEE enum value, it's cleaner to have it
> available at the virsh level. If there is really no use (or no potential
> use in a reasonable future) for it, the best is to remove it altogether
> from the API and the of virsh, before next week release.
> 
>   Nikunj I could not find any reference to "the well-known tunable"
> min_guarantee (it's clearly not well known ...) but can you tell us
> where this comes from ?
>
VMWare:
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Reservation: Gauranteed lower bound on the amount of the physical memory that
 	     the host reserves for the VM even in case of the overcommit. The
 	     VM is allowed to allocate till this level and after it has hit
 	     the reservation, those pages are not reclaimed. In case, if guest
 	     is not using till the reservation, the host can use that portion
 	     of memory.

And maybe in future cgroups.

>   I would also appreciate a patch to include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
> which change the comments for VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_HARD_LIMIT,
> VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_SOFT_LIMIT, VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_MIN_GUARANTEE,
> and VIR_DOMAIN_SWAP_HARD_LIMIT relapcing the non-reference
> "well known" with an actual description of what the tunable means.
> We cannot keep something that vague in the header and generated
> documentation,
> 
Sure, will send a patch

Nikunj