[libvirt] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Convert libxl driver to Xen 4.2

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Fri Nov 30 22:17:20 UTC 2012


Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 22:28 +0000, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>   
>> @@ -62,6 +63,52 @@ struct guest_arch {
>>  static const char *xen_cap_re = "(xen|hvm)-[[:digit:]]+\
>> \.[[:digit:]]+-(x86_32|x86_64|ia64|powerpc64)(p|be)?";
>>  static regex_t xen_cap_rec;
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Copied from split_string_into_string_list() in
>> + * $xen-sources/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c, which is licensed LGPL v2.1.
>> + */
>>     
>
> Looks like I am the sole author of that original function
> (24250:71ecbef5645f xen-unstable.hg). I'd more than likely be happy to
> relicence under whatever terms would be suitable for libvirt -- what are
> they?
>
> In particular I'd be happy with LGPL v2.1+ if that's what it takes.
>   

In the meantime, Daniel introduced some string utilities in libvirt,
including virStringSplit(), so I've dropped the copied code.

>   
>> +static int
>> +libxlSplitStringIntoStringList(const char *str,
>> +                               const char *delim,
>> +                               libxl_string_list *psl) 
>>     
> [...]
>
>   
>> @@ -393,26 +458,25 @@ libxlMakeDomBuildInfo(virDomainDefPtr def, libxl_domain_config *d_config)
>>      int hvm = STREQ(def->os.type, "hvm");
>>      int i;
>>
>> -    /* Currently, libxenlight only supports 32 vcpus per domain.
>> -     * cur_vcpus member of struct libxl_domain_build_info is defined
>> -     * as an int, but its semantic is a bitmap of online vcpus, so
>> -     * only 32 can be represented.
>> +    /*
>> +     * libxl in Xen 4.2 supports up to 128 vcpus, cur_vcpus was replaced
>> +     * by avail_vcpus of type libxl_bitmap
>>     
>
> Do you happen to know where the 128 number comes from? I think libxl is
> mostly agnostic about the size of this bitmap and should just be
> exposing whatever the hypervisor supports.
>   

I've also removed this check and sent a v2.

Regards,
Jim




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