[libvirt] [PATCH V3] Expose resource control capabilites on cache bank

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Apr 6 12:57:50 UTC 2017


On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 02:46:10PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 08:20:56PM +0800, Eli Qiao wrote:
> > This patch is based on Martin's cache branch.
> > 
> > This patch amends the cache bank capability as follow:
> > 
> 
> It helps a lot if you wait for a conclusion on a patch before sending
> another version as soon as you can change one line.
> 
> > <cache>
> >  <bank id='0' level='3' type='unified' size='15360' unit='KiB' cpus='0-5'>
> >    <control min='768' unit='KiB' type='unified' nallocations='4'/>
> >  </bank>
> >  <bank id='1' level='3' type='unified' size='15360' unit='KiB' cpus='6-11'>
> >    <control min='768' unit='KiB' type='unified' nallocations='4'/>
> >  </bank>
> > </cache>
> > 
> 
> I know Dan proposed "nallocations", but it sounds like one word.  I
> would rather use "allocations" or "max_allocs" or something
> understandable.  The reason for it?  We have no documentation for our
> capabilities XML.  And nobody is trying to create one as far as I know.
> So at least the naming should be more intuitive.

I won't mind either of these alternatives.

BTW, we really ought to fix the documentation gap too :-) I'm surprised we
have gone so long without documenting this key area of functionality!

Regards,
Daniel
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