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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jiri Denemark
661ae104c2 cpuUpdate() for updating guest CPU according to host CPU
Useful mainly for migration. cpuUpdate changes guest CPU requirements in
the following way:

- match == "strict" || match == "exact"
    - optional features which are supported by host CPU are changed into
      required features
    - optional features which are not supported by host CPU are disabled
    - all other features remain untouched
- match == "minimum"
    - match is changed into "exact"
    - optional features and all features not mentioned in guest CPU
      specification which are supported by host CPU become required
      features
    - other optional features are disabled
    - all other features remain untouched

This ensures that no feature will suddenly disappear from the guest
after migration.
2010-03-26 23:01:58 +01:00
Jiri Denemark
7b5ae2f077 Implement cpuArchBaseline in generic CPU driver 2010-02-12 14:18:21 +01:00
Jiri Denemark
388f3cb565 Functions for computing baseline CPU from a set of host CPUs
Baseline CPU is the best CPU which can be used for a guest on any of the
hosts.
2010-02-12 14:16:23 +01:00
Matthias Bolte
8ce5e2c1ab Remove conn parameter from virReportOOMError 2010-02-09 01:04:54 +01:00
Jiri Denemark
7286882c34 Adds CPU selection infrastructure
Each driver supporting CPU selection must fill in host CPU capabilities.
When filling them, drivers for hypervisors running on the same node as
libvirtd can use cpuNodeData() to obtain raw CPU data. Other drivers,
such as VMware, need to implement their own way of getting such data.
Raw data can be decoded into virCPUDefPtr using cpuDecode() function.

When implementing virConnectCompareCPU(), a hypervisor driver can just
call cpuCompareXML() function with host CPU capabilities.

For each guest for which a driver supports selecting CPU models, it must
set the appropriate feature in guest's capabilities:

    virCapabilitiesAddGuestFeature(guest, "cpuselection", 1, 0)

Actions needed when a domain is being created depend on whether the
hypervisor understands raw CPU data (currently CPUID for i686, x86_64
architectures) or symbolic names has to be used.

Typical use by hypervisors which prefer CPUID (such as VMware and Xen):

- convert guest CPU configuration from domain's XML into a set of raw
  data structures each representing one of the feature policies:

    cpuEncode(conn, architecture, guest_cpu_config,
              &forced_data, &required_data, &optional_data,
              &disabled_data, &forbidden_data)

- create a mask or whatever the hypervisor expects to see and pass it
  to the hypervisor

Typical use by hypervisors with symbolic model names (such as QEMU):

- get raw CPU data for a computed guest CPU:

    cpuGuestData(conn, host_cpu, guest_cpu_config, &data)

- decode raw data into virCPUDefPtr with a possible restriction on
  allowed model names:

    cpuDecode(conn, guest, data, n_allowed_models, allowed_models)

- pass guest->model and guest->features to the hypervisor

* src/cpu/cpu.c src/cpu/cpu.h src/cpu/cpu_generic.c
  src/cpu/cpu_generic.h src/cpu/cpu_map.c src/cpu/cpu_map.h
  src/cpu/cpu_x86.c src/cpu/cpu_x86.h src/cpu/cpu_x86_data.h
* configure.in: check for CPUID instruction
* src/Makefile.am: glue the new files in
* src/libvirt_private.syms: add new private symbols
* po/POTFILES.in: add new cpu files containing translatable strings
2009-12-18 16:13:45 +01:00