[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] Revert "qemu: Forbid pinning vCPUs for TCG domain"

John Ferlan jferlan at redhat.com
Tue Oct 30 00:04:51 UTC 2018



On 10/17/18 10:15 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> This reverts commit 8b035c84d8a7362a87a95e6114b8e7f959685ed9.
> 
> The MTTCG impl in QEMU does allow pinning vCPUs.
> 
> When the guest is running we already check if pinning is
> possible in the qemuDomainPinVcpuLive method, so this
> check was adding no benefit.
> 
> When the guest is not running, we cannot know whether the
> subsequent launch will use MTTCG or TCG, so we must allow
> the pinning request. If the guest does use TCG on the next
> launch it will fail, but this is no worse than if the user
> had done a virDomainDefineXML with an XML doc specifying
> vCPU pinning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 7 -------
>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> 

While looking at another "== VIR_DOMAIN_VIRT_QEMU" check in
virQEMUCapsAddCPUDefinitions, I wonder why/when/if it really mattered if
qemuCaps->tcgCPUModels in this code... No matter, I agree let's remove it.

Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>

John




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