[libvirt] [PATCH v2 3/3] Document to not rely on virConnectGetMaxVcpus API

Shivaprasad G Bhat sbhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jun 24 15:04:34 UTC 2016


The API virConnectGetMaxVcpus doesn't really reflect the actual usable number
of cpus as the maximum limits can be different for kvm and/or qemu. So update
the documentation to use virConnectGetDomainCapabilities() instead.

Signed-off-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 src/libvirt-host.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/libvirt-host.c b/src/libvirt-host.c
index 24277b7..2a3de03 100644
--- a/src/libvirt-host.c
+++ b/src/libvirt-host.c
@@ -313,7 +313,10 @@ virConnectGetSysinfo(virConnectPtr conn, unsigned int flags)
  *
  * Provides the maximum number of virtual CPUs supported for a guest VM of a
  * specific type. The 'type' parameter here corresponds to the 'type'
- * attribute in the <domain> element of the XML.
+ * attribute in the <domain> element of the XML. This API doesn't take emulator
+ * limits into consideration, hence the returned value is not guaranteed to be
+ * usable. It is recommended to use virConnectGetDomainCapabilities() and look
+ * for "<vcpu max='...'>" in its output instead.
  *
  * Returns the maximum of virtual CPU or -1 in case of error.
  */




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