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Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] arm/dom0less: assign dom0less guests to cpupools


  • To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • From: Luca Fancellu <Luca.Fancellu@xxxxxxx>
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> On 8 Apr 2022, at 10:10, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 08.04.2022 10:45, Luca Fancellu wrote:
>> @@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ struct xen_domctl_createdomain {
>>     /* Per-vCPU buffer size in bytes.  0 to disable. */
>>     uint32_t vmtrace_size;
>> 
>> +    uint32_t cpupool_id;
> 
> This could do with a comment explaining default behavior. In particular
> I wonder what 0 means: Looking at cpupool_destroy() I can't see that it
> would be impossible to delete pool 0 (but there may of course be
> reasons elsewhere, e.g. preventing pool 0 to ever go empty) - Jürgen?
> Yet if pool 0 can be removed, zero being passed in here should imo not
> lead to failure of VM creation. Otoh I understand that this would
> already happen ahead of your change, preventing of which would
> apparently possible only via passing CPUPOOLID_NONE here.

Hi Jan,

Pool-0 can’t be emptied because Dom0 is sitting there (the patch is modifying
cpupool_id only for DomUs).

I thought the name was self explanatory, but if I have to put a comment, would
It work something like that:

/* Cpupool id where the domain will be assigned on creation */


> 
> Jan
> 


 


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