This part introduces new xml elements for file based
memorybacking support and their parsing.
(It allows vhost-user to be used without hugepages.)
New xml elements:
<memoryBacking>
<source type="file|anonymous"/>
<access mode="shared|private"/>
<allocation mode="immediate|ondemand"/>
</memoryBacking>
Example:
<network>
...
<mtu size='9000'/>
...
If mtu is unset, it's assumed that we want the default for whatever is
the underlying transport (usually this is 1500).
This setting isn't yet wired in, so it will have no effect.
This partially resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1224348
Updating docs/news.xml in the same commit that performs the
documented change makes backports needlessly complicated,
both for mainteinance branches and downstream distributions,
because it introduces additional potential for merge
conflicts.
Document in the contributor guidelines that the release notes
should be updated in a separate commit instead, so that it's
easy to backport just the code change.
So far we allow to set MTU for libvirt networks. However, not all
domain interfaces have to be plugged into a libvirt network and
even if they are, they might want to have a different MTU (e.g.
for testing purposes).
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
fabric_name is one of many fc_host attributes in Linux that is optional
and left to the low-level driver to decide if it is implemented.
The zfcp device driver does not provide a fabric name for an fcp host.
This patch removes the requirement for a fabric name by making it optional.
Signed-off-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346566
If libvirt_parthelper is erroneously told to append the partition
separator 'p' onto the generated output for a disk pool using device
mapper that has 'user_friendly_names' set to true, then the error
recovery path will fail to find volume resulting in the pool being
in an unusable state.
So, augment the documentation to provide the better hint that the
part_separator='yes' should be set when user_friendly_names are not
being used. Additionally, once we're in the error path where the
returned name doesn't match the expected partition name try to see
if the reason is because the 'p' was erroneosly added. If so alter
the about to be removed vol->target.path so that the DiskDeleteVol
code can find the partition that was created and remove it.
In the documentation we are mixing libvirt-guest and
libvirt_guest module name. The correct name is the latter.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
For HVM domains, pae is only set in libxl_domain_build_info when
explicitly specified in the hypervisor <features> config. This is
fine for i686 machines, but is incorrect behavior for x86_64 machines
where pae must always be enabled. See the following discussion for
additional details
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-January/msg00254.html
This element has been introduced in fe053dbea7, but isn't
documented yet. After exactly 6 years I guess we can finally
document it.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In f55afd8 I've made libvirt to construct hugepage path on
per-domain basis. However, this change was not reflected in
the NEWS file.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Add "Improvements" for commit id 'bb74a7ffe' and '78be2e8b7' which add
support for using the parent wwnn/wwpn or fabric_name rather than just
using the parent by scsi_hostX name.
By default, pool-info will convert sizes to human friendly units.
This patch will introduce option [--bytes].
If specified, the raw sizes will be in the output.
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@gmail.com>
Now that we have built a fairly solid process for dealing with
release notes, we should start pushing for contributors to
provide the relevant information along with their code:
documenting the process is clearly a requirement for this to
happen.
Instead of encoding formatting information inside the
corresponding XSLT stylesheet, use a Python script to reformat
the text appropriately based on a few simple markers.
Splitting the task between the XSLT stylesheet and the Python
script allows us to keep both parts very simple.
Currently, building the NEWS file involves using a XSLT stylesheet
to extract information from the same HTML file that's used on the
libvirt website.
The process works, but it's quite fiddly in that it requires the
source HTML to be formatted in a very precise way, and a single
missing newline can mess up the resulting plain text considerably.
Moreover, the XSLT stylesheet itself encodes a lot of the details
of converting to plain text in a way that's not necessarily easy
to understand, tweak or fix.
To improve the process, move all existing entries to a new XML
file that contains exactly the information we care about in a
simple structured format, and start generating both the HTML and
plain text versions of the release notes using XSLT stylesheets
that can now afford to be almost trivial.
This patch adds support and documentation for
a generalized hardware cache event called cache_l1d
perf event.
Signed-off-by: Nitesh Konkar <nitkon12@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Add new fields to the fchost structure to allow creation of a vHBA via
the storage pool when a parent_wwnn/parent_wwpn or parent_fabric_wwn is
supplied in the storage pool XML.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349696
When creating a vHBA, the process is to feed XML to nodeDeviceCreateXML
that lists the <parent> scsi_hostX to use to create the vHBA. However,
between reboots, it's possible that the <parent> changes its scsi_hostX
to scsi_hostY and saved XML to perform the creation will either fail or
create a vHBA using the wrong parent.
So add the ability to provide "wwnn" and "wwpn" or "fabric_wwn" to
the <parent> instead of a name of the scsi_hostN that is the parent.
The allowed XML will thus be:
<parent>scsi_host3</parent> (current)
or
<parent wwnn='$WWNN' wwpn='$WWPN'/>
or
<parent fabric_wwn='$WWNN'/>
Using the wwnn/wwpn or fabric_wwn ensures the same 'scsi_hostN' is
selected between hardware reconfigs or host reboots. The fabric_wwn
Using the wwnn/wwpn pair will provide the most specific search option,
while fabric_wwn will at least ensure usage of the same SAN, but maybe
not the same scsi_hostN.
This patch will add the new fields to the nodedev.rng for input purposes
only since the input XML is essentially thrown away, no need to Format
the values since they'd already be printed as part of the scsi_host
data block.
New API virNodeDeviceGetParentHostByWWNs will take the parent "wwnn" and
"wwpn" in order to search the list of devices for matching capability
data fields wwnn and wwpn.
New API virNodeDeviceGetParentHostByFabricWWN will take the parent "fabric_wwn"
in order to search the list of devices for matching capability data field
fabric_wwn.
When generating the plain text version of the contributor
guidelines we add a ludicrous amount of vertical whitespace
in some spots. Tweak the XSLT stylesheet and regenerate the
now much better looking file.
When updating the source file in commit bd4f4d1686, I forgot
that we also store the generated plain text version in git and
didn't regenerate it.
I also missed one spot that required an additional <p> tag, so
fix both mistakes in one go.
Some of the <li> elements in the "General tips for contributing
patches" section were missing the corresponding inner <p> element,
so they ended up all lumped together.
