[libvirt] [PATCH] lxc: return correct number of CPUs

[Eric Blake]

On 05/29/2012 01:12 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> When getting number of CPUs the host has assigned, there was always
> number "1" returned. Even though all lxc domains with no pinning
> launched by libvirt run on all pCPUs (by default, no matter what's the
> number), we should at least return the same number as the user
> specified when creating the domain.
> ---
> The bug addressed above will be managed later, because I believe this
> needs to be discussed first (we don't say that <vcpu> is not supported
> for lxc, but we are able to set only pinning, shares, not number of
> CPUs; due to using cgroups). The question will be: "Should we change
> the docs and ban it in the code or make some workaround for fixing
> it?"

Is there no way to affect number of CPUs using just cgroups?  If so,
then I would lean towards erroring out if <vcpu> is specified but not
equal to the number of host cpus.  But like you say, that's a topic for
a separate patch.

> 
>  src/lxc/lxc_driver.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c b/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c
> index 9aea556..33b2774 100644
> --- a/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c
> +++ b/src/lxc/lxc_driver.c
> @@ -590,7 +590,7 @@ static int lxcDomainGetInfo(virDomainPtr dom,
>      }
> 
>      info->maxMem = vm->def->mem.max_balloon;
> -    info->nrVirtCpu = 1;
> +    info->nrVirtCpu = vm->def->vcpus;

ACK - this patch is safe to apply now.

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

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