Re: [Xen-staging] [xen-unstable] Added some more fields to host_cpu.

[Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:39 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> 
>    On ia64, dom0 doesn't automatically get vcpus for each physical cpu,
> so the first problem is that we're not going to have a /proc/cpuinfo
> entry for every cpu in self.cpus.keys.  I think it's likely x86 could
> run into this problem too if a cpu was hotplugged or booted with the
> dom0_max_vcpus options.

Not sure if this affects us.

>    The second problem is that /proc/cpuinfo fields are very architecture
> specific.  I'd suggest importing arch and having separate cases for x86,
> ia64, and powerpc.  For ia64, think the most appropriate mapping would
> be:
> 
>                 self.cpus[u].update(
>                     { 'host'     : self.uuid,
>                       'features' : cpu_features,
>                       'speed'    : int(float(cpuinfo[0]['cpu MHz'])),
>                       'vendor'   : cpuinfo[0]['vendor'],
>                       'modelname': cpuinfo[0]['family'],
>                       'stepping' : cpuinfo[0]['model'],
>                       'flags'    : cpuinfo[0]['features'],
>                     })

This absolutely does. Ewan, what are you trying to do here, and could
you please revert it until we figure out a solution that will work?

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center