[libvirt] [PATCH] Priority of vzctl create should be lower
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Fri Oct 30 13:01:48 UTC 2009
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:15:17PM +0100, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Yuji NISHIDA wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > About OpenVZ, it uses vzctl command that produces tar/gzip commands.
> > I think we should lower these commands for running other procedures
> > prior to them.
> > This is the patch to achieve it with nice/ionice commands.
>
> I'm not sure that this is such a good idea, as it is encoding policy into
> libvirt. There have been other requests for being able to set the priorities of
> certain domains, so it might make sense to have a more generic "priority"
> concept that could be set by the user. Then the user would specify how
> important a particular task is, and we wouldn't be putting any policy into
> libvirt itself.
Agreed hardcoding a policy like this at the lowest level doesn't
sound the right approach,
Daniel
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