From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] xen: add interface for obtaining .config from hypervisor
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:29:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95fd63f7-e7fe-bbb0-a2df-a634d3f05867@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <667b2ee6-fc6f-64e6-5977-2c69a9d97a95@citrix.com>
On 15/03/2019 16:55, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 14/03/2019 11:59, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> @@ -1100,6 +1100,20 @@ typedef struct xen_sysctl_cpu_policy xen_sysctl_cpu_policy_t;
>> DEFINE_XEN_GUEST_HANDLE(xen_sysctl_cpu_policy_t);
>> #endif
>>
>> +/*
>> + * XEN_SYSCTL_get_config
>> + *
>> + * Return gzip-ed .config file
>
> I don't think it is wise to bake gzip into the API. These days, there
> really are better options than gzip both in terms of compression ratio
> and decompress speed.
>
> I'd suggest just saying "file may be compressed" and leave it up to the
> packagers build system and `xl` choices to agree on which compression
> (if any) to use.
I am not convinced this is a good idea. I think the data format should
be specified.
And TBH: the difference in size for a rather "normal" .config is about
50 bytes (I tried gzip, xz and bzip2 with gzip producing the smallest
result).
Juergen
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-14 11:59 [PATCH v2 0/2] add xl command to get hypervisor .config Juergen Gross
2019-03-14 11:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] xen: add interface for obtaining .config from hypervisor Juergen Gross
2019-03-14 12:27 ` Wei Liu
2019-03-15 13:57 ` Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <5C8BAF5A020000780021F53D@suse.com>
2019-03-15 14:01 ` Juergen Gross
2019-03-15 14:24 ` Jan Beulich
2019-03-15 15:55 ` Andrew Cooper
2019-03-15 16:29 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2019-04-04 13:27 ` Wei Liu
2019-04-04 13:35 ` Juergen Gross
2019-08-05 15:07 ` [Xen-devel] " George Dunlap
2019-08-05 15:12 ` Juergen Gross
2019-03-15 18:57 ` Daniel De Graaf
2019-03-14 11:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tools: add new xl command get-hypervisor-config Juergen Gross
2019-03-14 12:27 ` Wei Liu
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