[libvirt] [PATCH 00/17] Supports for hypervisor-pin and hypervisor-bandwidth

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue Aug 7 16:13:19 UTC 2012


On 08/07/2012 09:47 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 02:36:02PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
>> This series is a merge of
>>
>>   1) "Support hypervisor-threads-pin in vcpupin"
>>      (https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-July/msg01361.html)
>>   2) "support to set cpu bandwidth for hypervisor threads"
>>      (https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-June/msg01161.html)
>>
>> to make life easier because of the two share some patches.
> 
> This series is really focusing on pinning threads associated
> with the <emulator> element, rather than the hypervisor. The
> hypervisor is a separate entity that is shared.
> 
> So I'm thinking that this entire patch series could replace
> 'hypervisor' with 'emulator' everywhere.  Any one has agree
> or disagree ?

I definitely agree - when I hear 'hypervisor', I think 'qemu:///system',
which is the technology used to run multiple guests, but when I hear
'emulator', I think of a subset of a domain, namely the specific qemu
pid_t running a given guest.  Also, we're not pinning all of the
hypervisor's threads, but just the threads that are associated with
emulation but not a specific vcpu.

That is, marking up your comment in 1/17:

cgroup mount point
+--libvirt                <= setting up a namespace (*)
   +--qemu                <= hypervisor level
      +--domain name      <= domain level
         +--vcpu0         <= vcpu level
         ...
         +--vcpuN
         +--"hypervisor"  <= emulator

so a domain really is made up of an 'emulator' and 'vcpu' threads, and a
'hypervisor' contains domains, rather than making up a portion of a domain.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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