[libvirt] [libvirt-perl PATCH v2] Virt.xs: fix flag issue on set_scheduler_parameters

[Alex Jia]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
To: "Eric Blake" <eblake at redhat.com>
Cc: "Alex Jia" <ajia at redhat.com>, libvir-list at redhat.com
Sent: Saturday, September 1, 2012 9:14:50 AM
Subject: Re: [libvirt] [libvirt-perl PATCH v2] Virt.xs: fix flag issue on set_scheduler_parameters

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:49:52AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 03:03 AM, Alex Jia wrote:
> > From: Alex Jia <Alex Jia ajia at redhat.com>
> > 
> > The default flags are inconsistent on both qemuSetSchedulerParameters()
> > and qemuGetSchedulerParameters() in libvirt, the qemuGetSchedulerParameters()
> > always passes 'VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_CURRENT' flag to the qemuGetSchedulerParametersFlags(),
> > it should be a expected behavior, but the qemuSetSchedulerParameters() always passes
> > 'VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_LIVE' flag to the qemuSetSchedulerParametersFlags(), if users use
> > default flag=0 or explicitly give a 'VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_CURRENT' flag to the
> > set_scheduler_parameters() in perl-Sys-Virt, because the flag value is 0, the result is
> > the virDomainSetSchedulerParameters() is called incorrectly.
> > 
> > In fact, it's enough to call the qemuSetSchedulerParametersFlags() regardless of what flag is
> > like 'virsh schedinfo' command.
> 
> But doing this makes it harder to talk to older libvirtd that lacked the
> new function.  I'm not sure whether we want to blindly force the need
> for the newer function to exist, or whether we should be reproducing the
> same logic for deciding when to try the older API based on the flags
> presented by the user.

Yeah, the intent of this conditional code in the Perl bindings is to
be as conservative as possible. So use the old APIs in all scenarios
where they provide the required functionality.


    Yeah, we should consider to talk to older libvirtd, but I'm not sure which 
solution is better one: the one is to change 'flag' or relevant codes in libvirt-perl;
the other is to unify flag value such as also passing flag 'VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_CURRENT'
to qemuSetSchedulerParametersFlags() in libvirt?


Daniel 
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