[libvirt] [PATCH 00/17] Supports for hypervisor-pin and hypervisor-bandwidth

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Aug 7 17:35:32 UTC 2012


On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 10:13:19AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/07/2012 09:47 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 02:36:02PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
> >> This series is a merge of
> >>
> >>   1) "Support hypervisor-threads-pin in vcpupin"
> >>      (https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-July/msg01361.html)
> >>   2) "support to set cpu bandwidth for hypervisor threads"
> >>      (https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-June/msg01161.html)
> >>
> >> to make life easier because of the two share some patches.
> > 
> > This series is really focusing on pinning threads associated
> > with the <emulator> element, rather than the hypervisor. The
> > hypervisor is a separate entity that is shared.
> > 
> > So I'm thinking that this entire patch series could replace
> > 'hypervisor' with 'emulator' everywhere.  Any one has agree
> > or disagree ?
> 
> I definitely agree - when I hear 'hypervisor', I think 'qemu:///system',
> which is the technology used to run multiple guests, but when I hear
> 'emulator', I think of a subset of a domain, namely the specific qemu
> pid_t running a given guest.  Also, we're not pinning all of the
> hypervisor's threads, but just the threads that are associated with
> emulation but not a specific vcpu.
> 
> That is, marking up your comment in 1/17:
> 
> cgroup mount point
> +--libvirt                <= setting up a namespace (*)
>    +--qemu                <= hypervisor level
>       +--domain name      <= domain level
>          +--vcpu0         <= vcpu level
>          ...
>          +--vcpuN
>          +--"hypervisor"  <= emulator
> 
> so a domain really is made up of an 'emulator' and 'vcpu' threads, and a
> 'hypervisor' contains domains, rather than making up a portion of a domain.

Also note that LXC has an emulator "/usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc" for
which all these new APIs apply, but the term 'hypervisor' is
meaningless for container based virt.


Daniel
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