[libvirt] [PATCH] Revert "LXC: show used memory as 0 when domain is not active"

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Thu Aug 27 22:38:24 UTC 2015


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:25:19AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 09:18:23 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:49:55PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>>>       
>>>> This reverts commit 1ce7c1d20cfd5afb26d2dbc88201085d52415d0e,
>>>> which introduced a significant semantic change to the
>>>> virDomainGetInfo() API. Additionally, the change was only
>>>> made to 2 of the 15 virt drivers.
>>>>
>>>> Conflicts:
>>>> 	src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  src/lxc/lxc_driver.c   |  2 +-
>>>>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 12 ++++++------
>>>>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>>>         
>>> ACK
>>>
>>> I guess we should probably do this in the stable branch too, since I
>>> think it made it into the most recent release.
>>>       
>> Erm, the change is out for a while now:
>>
>> git desc 1ce7c1d20cfd5afb26d2dbc88201085d52415d0e
>> v1.2.6-225-g1ce7c1d
>>     
>
> Oh yes, so it is. I'm still inclined to say we should be reverting it as
> I think it is wrong. The change was based on the misleading field name
> shown by virsh. The info->memory field shows the current balloon target,
> and conceptually this should be equal to the max memory if the ballooon
> driver is not active. As such I think it should be equal to max memory
> if shutoff too.
>   

Yikes, I forgot to commit this before leaving for travel/vacation. Is it
still ok to commit to master? And just to be clear, then cherry pick to
1.2.7-1.2.18 maint branches?

Regards,
Jim




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