Re: [PATCH] Fix cpumap setting before passing to XEN

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

Sorry I was at the Xen hackathon in the last two days.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:35:20AM +0800, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> 在 2016/4/11 19:27, Wei Liu 写道:
> >On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:42:57AM +0800, Zhenzhong Duan wrote:
> >>It's tool's duty to pass a correct cpumap to XEN. On a host with less than
> >>64
> >>CPUS, it just shows below error.
> >>
> >>[root@localhost /]# xm vcpu-pin 3 all all
> >>Error: Cannot pin vcpu: 0 to cpu: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
> >>13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,
> >>32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50,
> >>51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63] - (22, 'Invalid
> >>argument')
> >>
> >This error clearly shows that the upper layer is not passing down the
> >right cpumap. So this example along won't convince me to that this is a
> >bug in python binding. It's free to reject input that it deems wrong.
> >
> >I guess the question is more or less what should it do in such
> >situation. So ...
> >
> >>The fix make it same as in xl code.
> >>
> >Is there reference to this? I guess the commit message  or mail thread
> >will shed more light on the expected behaviour.
> Calling path:
> main_vcpupin->cpurange_parse->update_cpumap_range->libxl_bitmap_set
> 
> void libxl_bitmap_set(libxl_bitmap *bitmap, int bit)
> {
>     if (bit >= bitmap->size * 8)
>         return;
>     bitmap->map[bit / 8] |= 1 << (bit & 7);
> }
> 
> I referenced above code. It just ignore the cpu number beyond the max CPU
> count rather than raise an error.
> 

In principle I think having python binding and xl/libxl behave more or less
the same is the right direction. I'm a bit nervous about the change of
behaviour on the other hand.

Let's wait for a few more days to see if other people have any comment on
this.

Wei.

> thanks
> zduan

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