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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Cc: ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/18] libxl: introduce libxl_get_memory_static_max
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 19:16:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1409249763.21481.22.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140828113133.GL13165@zion.uk.xensource.com>

On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 12:31 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:

> > > @@ -884,6 +891,7 @@ int libxl_domain_core_dump(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid,
> > >  int libxl_domain_setmaxmem(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, uint32_t target_memkb);
> > >  int libxl_set_memory_target(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, int32_t target_memkb, int relative, int enforce);
> > >  int libxl_get_memory_target(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, uint32_t *out_target);
> > > +int libxl_get_memory_static_max(libxl_ctx *ctx, uint32_t domid, uint32_t *out_static_max);
> > 
> > Do you need this to be public, or did you just do it for consistency?
> > 
> 
> I did it for consistency, in case it's useful to library users. If you
> would rather not expose this I can make it internal.

In general I'm wary of adding to the API "just because". Refactoring an
internal function to be externally available when a requirement arises
is pretty easy, whereas changing an already public function because the
eventual requirement turned out not to be what we expected is harder.

Ian.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-28 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-30 18:23 [PATCH v2 00/18] libxl: synchronise domain configuration Wei Liu
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 01/18] libxl: libxl error code is signed integer Wei Liu
2014-08-26 21:15   ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-03 14:12     ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 02/18] libxl: make userdata_path libxl internal function Wei Liu
2014-08-26 21:16   ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 03/18] libxl: functions to lock / unlock domain data in libxl user data store Wei Liu
2014-08-26 21:21   ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-03 14:27     ` Wei Liu
2014-09-03 12:40   ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-03 15:09     ` Wei Liu
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 04/18] libxl: properly lock " Wei Liu
2014-08-26 21:24   ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 05/18] libxl: libxl-json format and internal functions to get / set it Wei Liu
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 06/18] libxl: store a copy of configuration when creating domain Wei Liu
2014-08-27  1:34   ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 07/18] libxl: separate device add/rm complete callbacks Wei Liu
2014-08-27  1:41   ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 10:34     ` Wei Liu
2014-09-03 11:53       ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-03 11:55         ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 08/18] libxl: introduce libxl__device_from_pcidev Wei Liu
2014-08-27  1:45   ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 09/18] libxl: disallow attaching the same device more than once Wei Liu
2014-08-27  1:48   ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 10:55     ` Wei Liu
2014-09-03 11:52       ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 10/18] tools/misc: introduce helper to initialise Dom0 Wei Liu
2014-07-31  8:34   ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-27  1:52   ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 10:58     ` Wei Liu
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 11/18] libxl: synchronise configuration when we hotplug a device Wei Liu
2014-08-27  2:00   ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 11:18     ` Wei Liu
2014-09-03 11:57       ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 12/18] libxl: synchronise configuration when we remove/destroy " Wei Liu
2014-08-27  2:01   ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 13/18] libxl: make libxl_cd_insert "eject" + "insert" Wei Liu
2014-08-27  2:04   ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 11:25     ` Wei Liu
2014-08-28 18:14       ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 18:38         ` Wei Liu
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 14/18] libxl: introduce libxl_get_memory_static_max Wei Liu
2014-08-27  2:09   ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 11:31     ` Wei Liu
2014-08-28 18:16       ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2014-08-28 18:39         ` Wei Liu
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 15/18] libxl: introduce libxl_retrieve_domain_configuration Wei Liu
2014-08-27  2:13   ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 11:39     ` Wei Liu
2014-08-28 18:17       ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 18:51         ` Wei Liu
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 16/18] libxl: introduce libxl_userdata_unlink Wei Liu
2014-08-27  2:16   ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 11:50     ` Wei Liu
2014-08-28 18:20       ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 19:04         ` Wei Liu
2014-08-28 19:31           ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-28 20:27             ` Wei Liu
2014-08-28 20:44               ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-29 10:37                 ` Wei Liu
2014-09-03 12:12                   ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-03 14:10                     ` Wei Liu
2014-09-03 14:16                       ` Ian Campbell
2014-09-03 14:17                         ` Wei Liu
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 17/18] xl: use libxl_retrieve_domain_configuration and JSON format Wei Liu
2014-09-03 12:57   ` Ian Campbell
2014-07-30 18:23 ` [PATCH v2 18/18] xl: long output of "list" command now contains Dom0 information Wei Liu
2014-09-03 12:50   ` Ian Campbell
2014-08-12 16:17 ` [PATCH v2 00/18] libxl: synchronise domain configuration Wei Liu

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