[Libvir] Add a timestamp to virDomainInfo ?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:47:56AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:32:12PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > So, as to be expected, the XenD/XenStoreD approach has significantly higher
> > overhead that direct HV calls. The question is, is a x350 overhead for 
> > unprivileged user's acceptable / can it be improved to just one order of
> > magnitude worse.
> 
>   with HTTP and no pipelining of requests it's gonna be hard to improve,
> but I'm afraid most of the time was spent in python code interpretation
> on the xend side. did you ran top at some point to check ?

Yes, the CPU was highly loaded by both xenstore & xend processes.

> > So this basic DBus service (written in Perl BTW) is approx x50 overhead 
> > compared to HV calls, significantly better than the existing HTTP/SExpr
> > RPC method. It'll be interesting to see how the new XML-RPC method compares
> > in performance.
> 
>  Well it doesn't exist yet at least on the client side. There is certainly
> a number of optimization doable, hard to tell without a first full round
> trip to test.


 
>   So all options considered it seem virDomainInfo should be defined
> once and for all, so if we foresee more informations to be needed this should
> be added ASAP (not that network device informations should really be made
> part of a different probe call IMHO).

That makes sense - since we can have an arbitrary number of network / disk 
adapters registered to the machine, it wouldn't really be feasible to define
storage space in a statically size structured.

Dan.
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