Re: [Xen-users] xl doesn't honour the parameter cpu_weight from my config file while xm does honour it

[Dieter Bloms <dieter@bloms.de>]

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Hi,


On Tue, Apr 24, Dario Faggioli wrote:

> What might be missing is some documentation in docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5,
> explaining about the new options... :-)

I've added a little documentation, so now I hope it is ok.


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libxl: set domain scheduling parameters while creating the dom

the domain specific scheduling parameters like cpu_weight, cap, slice, ...
will be set during creating the domain, so this parameters can be defined
in the domain config file

Signed-off-by: Dieter Bloms <dieter@bloms.de>

diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
index e2cd251..4060933 100644
--- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
+++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
@@ -112,6 +112,44 @@ List of which cpus the guest is allowed to use. Default behavior is
 (all vcpus will run on cpus 0,2,3,5), or `cpus=["2", "3"]` (all vcpus
 will run on cpus 2 and 3).
 
+=item B<cpu-weight="weight of cpu (default 256)">
+
+A domain with a weight of 512 will get twice as much CPU as a domain
+with a weight of 256 on a contended host.
+Legal weights range from 1 to 65535 and the default is 256.
+Can be set for credit, credit2 and sedf scheduler.
+
+=item B<cap="max amount of cpu (default 0)">
+
+The cap optionally fixes the maximum amount of CPU a domain will be
+able to consume, even if the host system has idle CPU cycles.
+The cap is expressed in percentage of one physical CPU:
+100 is 1 physical CPU, 50 is half a CPU, 400 is 4 CPUs, etc.
+The default, 0, means there is no upper cap.
+Can be set for the credit and credit2 scheduler.
+
+=item B<period="time in nanoseconds (default 0)">
+
+The normal EDF scheduling usage in nanoseconds. This means every period
+the domain gets cpu time defined in slice.
+Can be set for sedf scheduler.
+
+=item B<slice="time in nanoseconds (default 0)">
+
+The normal EDF scheduling usage in nanoseconds. it defines the time 
+a domain get every period time.
+Can be set for sedf scheduler.
+
+=item B<latency=" (default 0)">
+
+Scaled period if domain is doing heavy I/O.
+Can be set for sedf scheduler.
+
+=item B<extratime="BOOLEAN (default 0)">
+
+Flag for allowing domain to run in extra time.
+Can be set for sedf scheduler.
+
 =item B<memory=MBYTES>
 
 Start the guest with MBYTES megabytes of RAM.
diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c
index 0bdd654..38acff4 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_dom.c
@@ -124,8 +124,27 @@ int libxl__build_post(libxl__gc *gc, uint32_t domid,
     char *dom_path, *vm_path;
     xs_transaction_t t;
     char **ents, **hvm_ents;
+    libxl_scheduler sched;
     int i;
 
+    sched = libxl_get_scheduler (ctx);
+    switch (sched) {
+    case LIBXL_SCHEDULER_SEDF:
+      libxl_sched_sedf_domain_set(ctx, domid, &(info->us.sedf));
+      break;
+    case LIBXL_SCHEDULER_CREDIT:
+      libxl_sched_credit_domain_set(ctx, domid, &(info->us.credit));
+      break;
+    case LIBXL_SCHEDULER_CREDIT2:
+      libxl_sched_credit2_domain_set(ctx, domid, &(info->us.credit2));
+      break;
+    case LIBXL_SCHEDULER_ARINC653:
+      /* not implemented */
+      break;
+    default:
+        abort();
+    }
+
     libxl_cpuid_apply_policy(ctx, domid);
     if (info->cpuid != NULL)
         libxl_cpuid_set(ctx, domid, info->cpuid);
diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl b/tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl
index 5cf9708..c1cdc3c 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_types.idl
@@ -224,6 +224,27 @@ libxl_domain_create_info = Struct("domain_create_info",[
 
 MemKB = UInt(64, init_val = "LIBXL_MEMKB_DEFAULT")
 
+libxl_sched_credit_domain = Struct("sched_credit_domain", [
+    ("weight", integer),
+    ("cap", integer),
+    ])
+
+libxl_sched_credit2_domain = Struct("sched_credit2_domain", [
+    ("weight", integer),
+    ])
+
+libxl_sched_sedf_domain = Struct("sched_sedf_domain", [
+    ("period", integer),
+    ("slice", integer),
+    ("latency", integer),
+    ("extratime", integer),
+    ("weight", integer),
+    ])
+
+libxl_sched_arinc653_domain = Struct("sched_arinc653_domain", [
+    ("weight", integer),
+    ])
+
 # Instances of libxl_file_reference contained in this struct which
 # have been mapped (with libxl_file_reference_map) will be unmapped
 # by libxl_domain_build/restore. If either of these are never called
@@ -256,6 +277,13 @@ libxl_domain_build_info = Struct("domain_build_info",[
     # extra parameters pass directly to qemu for HVM guest, NULL terminated
     ("extra_hvm",        libxl_string_list),
 
+    ("us", KeyedUnion(None, libxl_scheduler, "sched",
+                 [("credit", libxl_sched_credit_domain),
+                 ("credit2", libxl_sched_credit2_domain),
+                 ("sedf", libxl_sched_sedf_domain),
+                 ("arinc653", libxl_sched_arinc653_domain),
+                 ], keyvar_init_val = "-1")),
+
     ("u", KeyedUnion(None, libxl_domain_type, "type",
                 [("hvm", Struct(None, [("firmware",         string),
                                        ("bios",             libxl_bios_type),
@@ -417,28 +445,12 @@ libxl_cputopology = Struct("cputopology", [
     ("node", uint32),
     ], dir=DIR_OUT)
 
-libxl_sched_credit_domain = Struct("sched_credit_domain", [
-    ("weight", integer),
-    ("cap", integer),
-    ])
 
 libxl_sched_credit_params = Struct("sched_credit_params", [
     ("tslice_ms", integer),
     ("ratelimit_us", integer),
     ], dispose_fn=None)
 
-libxl_sched_credit2_domain = Struct("sched_credit2_domain", [
-    ("weight", integer),
-    ])
-
-libxl_sched_sedf_domain = Struct("sched_sedf_domain", [
-    ("period", integer),
-    ("slice", integer),
-    ("latency", integer),
-    ("extratime", integer),
-    ("weight", integer),
-    ])
-
 libxl_event_type = Enumeration("event_type", [
     (1, "DOMAIN_SHUTDOWN"),
     (2, "DOMAIN_DEATH"),
diff --git a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
index 5703512..db51ca6 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
@@ -587,6 +587,23 @@ static void parse_config_data(const char *configfile_filename_report,
     libxl_domain_build_info_init_type(b_info, c_info->type);
 
     /* the following is the actual config parsing with overriding values in the structures */
+    if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "cpu_weight", &l, 0))
+        b_info->us.credit.weight = l;
+        b_info->us.credit2.weight = l;
+        b_info->us.sedf.weight = l;
+
+    if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "cap", &l, 0))
+        b_info->us.credit.cap = l;
+
+    if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "period", &l, 0))
+        b_info->us.sedf.period = l;
+    if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "slice", &l, 0))
+        b_info->us.sedf.period = l;
+    if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "latency", &l, 0))
+        b_info->us.sedf.period = l;
+    if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "extratime", &l, 0))
+        b_info->us.sedf.period = l;
+
     if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "vcpus", &l, 0)) {
         b_info->max_vcpus = l;
         b_info->cur_vcpus = (1 << l) - 1;

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