From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: "Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: e820_host default value and libxl (not xl)
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 09:10:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160523131032.GA25856@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160523104748.GC31306@citrix.com>
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:47:48AM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 04:42:11AM +0200, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > According to xl.cfg(5) " This option defaults to true (1) if any PCI
> > passthrough devices are configured and false (0) otherwise."
> > And indeed this behaviour is implemented in xl. But not in libxl, which
> > means other libxl based toolstacks (libvirt) will not take advantage of
> > this directly.
> >
> > What would be the best approach here? Duplicate that behaviour in
> > libvirt (currently libvirt knows nothing about this option), or move
> > that default handling to libxl? I think the later makes more sense, but
> > maybe there is some reason against it?
> >
>
> The latter.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if the boundary between xl and libxl was
> overlooked when implementing this flag. I've done similar things to push
It never occurred to me when I wrote that code sadly :-(
> xsm label handling logic from xl to libxl.
>
> Wei.
>
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
> > Invisible Things Lab
> > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-21 2:42 e820_host default value and libxl (not xl) Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2016-05-23 10:33 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-05-23 10:47 ` Wei Liu
2016-05-23 10:59 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-05-23 11:27 ` Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
2016-05-23 13:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-05-23 13:30 ` Wei Liu
2016-05-23 13:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
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