[Libvir] [PATCH] Xen: Support cpu_weight and cpu_cap for Xen.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
>  So you are suggesting to add this to the XML, while for me this makes little
> sense because of all this specificity.
> I have no doubt the patch would 'work' for you, but anybody using a different
> hypervisor, or different scheduler, or even someone trying to understand what
> those fields are would have no use or informations (your patch does not provide
> documentation for the meaning of those attributes).
> 
>   I have a problem with extending the XML in a way which makes sense
> only for one hypervisor, when using a specific scheduler, and without
> a proper definition for what the extension actually means. 
>   Also Those informations are highly runtime dependant, it's tuning,
> it is not critical at all to get that tuning to get the domain up and
> running, and once it is running you can actually use the libvirt API
> to make the scheduler tuning.
> 
>   Can you explain why you absolutely want to have that tuning information
> in the XML itself ?

There's certainly a general problem here: how do we persist information 
like CPU pinning and scheduler information across domain shutdown to the 
next time that the domain starts up.  What is the current thinking about 
setting CPU pinning info when a domain boots?

Rich.

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