[libvirt] [PATCH] Implement CPU topology support for QEMU driver
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jan 13 09:17:00 UTC 2010
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 09:47:00AM +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > > ADD_ARG_LIT("-smp");
> > > - ADD_ARG_LIT(vcpus);
> > > + if ((qemuCmdFlags & QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_SMP_TOPOLOGY) && def->cpu) {
> > > + virBuffer buf = VIR_BUFFER_INITIALIZER;
> > > +
> > > + virBufferVSprintf(&buf, "%lu", def->vcpus);
> > > +
> > > + if (def->cpu->sockets > 0)
> > > + virBufferVSprintf(&buf, ",sockets=%u", def->cpu->sockets);
> > > +
> > > + if (def->cpu->cores > 0)
> > > + virBufferVSprintf(&buf, ",cores=%u", def->cpu->cores);
> > > +
> > > + if (def->cpu->threads > 0)
> > > + virBufferVSprintf(&buf, ",threads=%u", def->cpu->threads);
> > > +
> > > + if (virBufferError(&buf)) {
> > > + virBufferFreeAndReset(&buf);
> > > + goto no_memory;
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + ADD_ARG(virBufferContentAndReset(&buf));
> > > + }
> > > + else {
> > > + char vcpus[50];
> > > + snprintf(vcpus, sizeof(vcpus), "%lu", def->vcpus);
> > > + ADD_ARG_LIT(vcpus);
> > > + }
> >
> >
> > Can you split this piece of code out into a separate method with a
> > signature like
> >
> > static char *qemuBuildCPUStr(virDomainDefPtr def, int qemuCmdFlags);
> >
> > The main qemuBuildCommandLine method is getting out of control :-)
>
> With pleasure.
>
> > Also, in the case where 'def->cpu' is NULL, but QEMUD_CMD_FLAG_SMP_TOPOLOGY
> > is available, I think we should explicitly set an arg based on
> >
> > sockets=def->vcpus
> > cores=1
> > threads=1
> >
> > so that we avoid relying on any changable QEMU default values.
>
> Makes sense. I was also considering a check for vcpus == sockets * cores *
> threads, but I'm not totally convinced it is a good idea.
You don't want todo that because it is fine to have a topology that is
not fully populated with CPUs
>
> > > + do {
> > > + if (*p == '\0' || *p == ',')
> > > + goto syntax;
> > > +
> > > + if ((next = strchr(p, ',')))
> > > + next++;
> > > +
> > > + if (c_isdigit(*p)) {
> > > + int n;
> > > + if (virStrToLong_i(p, &end, 10, &n) < 0 ||
> > > + !end || (*end != ',' && *end != '\0'))
> > > + goto syntax;
> > > + dom->vcpus = n;
> > > + } else {
> > > + int i;
> > > + int n = -1;
> > > + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_CARDINALITY(options); i++) {
> > > + if (STRPREFIX(p, options[i])) {
> > > + p += strlen(options[i]);
> > > + if (virStrToLong_i(p, &end, 10, &n) < 0 ||
> > > + !end || (*end != ',' && *end != '\0'))
> > > + goto syntax;
> > > + topology[i] = n;
> > > + break;
> > > + }
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + if (n < 0)
> > > + goto syntax;
> > > + }
> > > + } while ((p = next));
> >
> > If you strip off the initial CPU count value, then you can use
> >
> > qemuParseCommandLineKeywords
> >
> > to parse the reset of the name=value args.
>
> Ah, cool, I didn't know about it. I guess because it's not used very often in
> the code. BTW, would it make sense to extend the function to (optionally)
> support parsing of any comma-separated list such as keyword,name=value,...?
> The "keyword" parts would result in NULL value in retvalues array and the
> "name=value" parts would behave normally.
Yes, there are a couple of places where that might be useful.
Daniel
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