[libvirt] [PATCH 1/8] cputune: Add xml schema for cputune xml

[Matthias Bolte]

2011/3/29 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 02:32:19PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote:
>> Sample of cputune xml:
>>   <cputune>
>>     <shares>2048</shares>
>>     <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0-4,^3'/>
>>     <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='1,2'/>
>>   </cputune>
>>
>> * docs/schemas/domain.rng
>> ---
>>  docs/schemas/domain.rng |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>

>> @@ -2198,6 +2219,17 @@
>>        <param name="minInclusive">1</param>
>>      </data>
>>    </define>
>> +  <define name="vcpuid">
>> +    <data type="unsignedShort">
>> +      <param name="pattern">[0-9]+</param>
>> +    </data>
>> +  </define>
>> +  <define name="cpushares">
>> +    <data type="unsignedInt">
>> +      <param name="pattern">[0-9]+</param>
>> +      <param name="maxInclusive">262144</param>
>> +    </data>
>> +   </define>
>
>  So there is a bounded value 262144 for cpushares, good but
> still no indication of the meaning :-)

Actually for ESX I would want this value to be an unrestricted signed
integer. ESX has 3 predefined values: low, normal and high. Currently
in the scheduler parameters functions I map them to -1, -2, -3. But
I'm not sure if that's a thing we should use as a general pattern. I
might also calculate the actual values, instead of using special
symbolic values. The vSphere docs contain formulas for this
conversion.

Nevertheless, I vote against this arbitrary (cgroup specific?) upper limit.

Matthias