Re: [PATCH v5 12/17] xen/libxc: sched: DOMCTL_*vcpuaffinity works with hard and soft affinity

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>]

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On mar, 2013-12-03 at 11:20 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 03.12.13 at 11:59, Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com> wrote:
> > Well, actually, I only asked what we should be returning from
> > DOMCTL_vcpu_setaffinity, and never mentioned DOMCTL_vcpu_getaffinity
> > because I seriously thought there was no need to discuss what the latter
> > should be returning, and whether or not the two return values should
> > match.
> 
> And I would also have doubted that I ever said to do something
> intentionally inconsistent...
> 
Well, if you ask me, you never did, as I think this is perfectly
consistent. :-)

> > That being said, I of course can say something about this in some
> > docs/header. Actually, the following patch does that quite thoroughly, I
> > think, in tools/libxc/xenctrl.h. I can certainly add something similar
> > in Xen's public .h files.
> 
> As said - as long as there is proper reasoning and at least a brief
> explanation in the public header (xenctrl.h not being considered
> "public" in the context here"), I'm fine with the returned masks
> differing.
> 
Ok, as I anticipated, I'll make a note about this in an hypervisor
public header.

Thanks and Regards,
Dario

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