Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH-for-4.13 v7] Rationalize max_grant_frames and max_maptrack_frames handling

["Marek Marczykowski-Górecki" <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>]

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On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 05:44:23PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 05:36:11PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 05:24:45PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > > From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
> > > 
> > > Xen used to have single, system-wide limits for the number of grant
> > > frames and maptrack frames a guest was allowed to create. Increasing
> > > or decreasing this single limit on the Xen command-line would change
> > > the limit for all guests on the system.
> > > 
> > > Later, per-domain limits for these values was created. The system-wide
> > > limits became strict limits: domains could not be created with higher
> > > limits, but could be created with lower limits. However, that change
> > > also introduced a range of different "default" values into various
> > > places in the toolstack:
> > > 
> > > - The python libxc bindings hard-coded these values to 32 and 1024,
> > >   respectively
> > > - The libxl default values are 32 and 1024 respectively.
> > > - xl will use the libxl default for maptrack, but does its own default
> > >   calculation for grant frames: either 32 or 64, based on the max
> > >   possible mfn.
> > > 
> > > These defaults interact poorly with the hypervisor command-line limit:
> > > 
> > > - The hypervisor command-line limit cannot be used to raise the limit
> > >   for all guests anymore, as the default in the toolstack will
> > >   effectively override this.
> > > - If you use the hypervisor command-line limit to *reduce* the limit,
> > >   then the "default" values generated by the toolstack are too high,
> > >   and all guest creations will fail.
> > > 
> > > In other words, the toolstack defaults require any change to be
> > > effected by having the admin explicitly specify a new value in every
> > > guest.
> > > 
> > > In order to address this, have grant_table_init treat negative values
> > > for max_grant_frames and max_maptrack_frames as instructions to use the
> > > system-wide default, and have all the above toolstacks default to passing
> > > -1 unless a different value is explicitly configured.
> > > 
> > > This restores the old behavior in that changing the hypervisor command-line
> > > option can change the behavior for all guests, while retaining the ability
> > > to set per-guest values.  It also removes the bug that reducing the
> > > system-wide max will cause all domains without explicit limits to fail.
> > > 
> > > NOTE: - The Ocaml bindings require the caller to always specify a value,
> > >         and the code to start a xenstored stubdomain hard-codes these to 4
> > > 	and 128 respectively; this behavour will not be modified.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> > > Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
> 
> In theory I should wait for Marek's ack for changes to python binding,
> but the changes are trivial there so I plan to push this patch later
> tonight to both staging and staging-4.13 so that it can be tested over
> the weekend.
> 
> Marek, I apologise in advance in case you disagree with my assessment.

FWIW, for python part:
Acked-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>

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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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