libvirt/src
Ryota Ozaki 4a4eb13e7a cgroup: Enable memory.use_hierarchy of cgroup for domain
Through conversation with Kumar L Srikanth-B22348, I found
that the function of getting memory usage (e.g., virsh dominfo)
doesn't work for lxc with ns subsystem of cgroup enabled.

This is because of features of ns and memory subsystems.
Ns creates child cgroup on every process fork and as a result
processes in a container are not assigned in a cgroup for
domain (e.g., libvirt/lxc/test1/). For example, libvirt_lxc
and init (or somewhat specified in XML) are assigned into
libvirt/lxc/test1/8839/ and libvirt/lxc/test1/8839/8849/,
respectively. On the other hand, memory subsystem accounts
memory usage within a group of processes by default, i.e.,
it does not take any child (and descendant) groups into
account. With the two features, virsh dominfo which just
checks memory usage of a cgroup for domain always returns
zero because the cgroup has no process.

Setting memory.use_hierarchy of a group allows to account
(and limit) memory usage of every descendant groups of the group.
By setting it of a cgroup for domain, we can get proper memory
usage of lxc with ns subsystem enabled. (To be exact, the
setting is required only when memory and ns subsystems are
enabled at the same time, e.g., mount -t cgroup none /cgroup.)
2010-06-23 14:31:38 -06:00
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conf nwfilter: fix loadable module support 2010-06-21 14:18:31 -04:00
cpu Add support for SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 CPU features 2010-05-18 20:53:31 +02:00
esx esx: Accept 'disk' as harddisk device type in .vmx files 2010-06-16 23:06:12 +02:00
interface Implement forgotten backend of virInterfaceIsActive() 2010-04-14 10:38:18 -04:00
lxc drivers: add virDomainCreateWithFlags if virDomainCreate exists 2010-06-15 09:37:11 -06:00
network network: allow tftp port if tftp is defined 2010-06-23 08:24:00 -06:00
node_device Fix leaks in udev device add/remove v3 2010-06-08 14:46:29 -04:00
nwfilter nwfilter: fix loadable module support 2010-06-21 14:18:31 -04:00
opennebula drivers: add virDomainCreateWithFlags if virDomainCreate exists 2010-06-15 09:37:11 -06:00
openvz drivers: add virDomainCreateWithFlags if virDomainCreate exists 2010-06-15 09:37:11 -06:00
phyp phyp: adding support for IVM 2010-06-17 11:49:09 -06:00
qemu Add '-nodefconfig' command line arg to QEMU 2010-06-23 14:08:05 +01:00
remote remote: protocol implementation for virDomainCreateWithFlags 2010-06-15 09:37:04 -06:00
secret maint: change "" in err ? err->message : "" to _("unknown error"), ... 2010-05-20 21:36:26 +02:00
security Don't raise errors in the selinux restore code 2010-06-08 15:21:07 +01:00
storage parthelper: fix compilation without optimization 2010-06-14 15:11:49 -06:00
test drivers: add virDomainCreateWithFlags if virDomainCreate exists 2010-06-15 09:37:11 -06:00
uml drivers: add virDomainCreateWithFlags if virDomainCreate exists 2010-06-15 09:37:11 -06:00
util cgroup: Enable memory.use_hierarchy of cgroup for domain 2010-06-23 14:31:38 -06:00
vbox drivers: add virDomainCreateWithFlags if virDomainCreate exists 2010-06-15 09:37:11 -06:00
xen drivers: add virDomainCreateWithFlags if virDomainCreate exists 2010-06-15 09:37:11 -06:00
xenapi drivers: add virDomainCreateWithFlags if virDomainCreate exists 2010-06-15 09:37:11 -06:00
.gitignore Generate libvirt.def from libvirt.syms 2010-04-08 20:12:09 +02:00
datatypes.c Misc cleanups 2010-06-21 10:11:34 +02:00
datatypes.h Snapshot API framework. 2010-04-05 10:24:34 -04:00
driver.c maint: mark translatable string args of VIR_ERROR 2010-05-20 21:36:25 +02:00
driver.h libvirt: introduce domainCreateWithFlags API 2010-06-15 07:32:41 -06:00
gnutls_1_0_compat.h build: consistently indent preprocessor directives 2010-03-09 19:22:28 +01:00
internal.h Fix up basic migration. 2010-05-25 10:48:10 -04:00
libvirt_bridge.syms Support networking in UML driver 2009-06-03 11:13:33 +00:00
libvirt_daemon.syms Export conditional state driver symbols only when they are defined 2010-03-23 02:05:18 +01:00
libvirt_driver_modules.syms Move --with-driver-modules symbols into a separate sym file 2009-01-05 14:06:41 +00:00
libvirt_internal.h build: consistently indent preprocessor directives 2010-03-09 19:22:28 +01:00
libvirt_linux.syms migrate linux-specific symbol names into their own sym file 2009-01-05 14:08:26 +00:00
libvirt_macvtap.syms macvtap teardown rework 2010-02-18 15:13:48 +01:00
libvirt_nwfilter.syms Some NWFilter symbols are conditional and have to be exported conditional 2010-04-23 19:51:00 +02:00
libvirt_private.syms nwfilter: fix loadable module support 2010-06-21 14:18:31 -04:00
libvirt_public.syms libvirt: introduce domainCreateWithFlags API 2010-06-15 07:32:41 -06:00
libvirt.c libvirt: introduce domainCreateWithFlags API 2010-06-15 07:32:41 -06:00
Makefile.am nwfilter: fix loadable module support 2010-06-21 14:18:31 -04:00
nodeinfo.c build: use gnulib's uname 2010-05-06 14:35:37 -06:00
nodeinfo.h build: consistently indent preprocessor directives 2010-03-09 19:22:28 +01:00
README Add a README file to src/ explaining the directory structure 2009-09-21 14:41:47 +01:00
remote_protocol-structs remote: protocol implementation for virDomainCreateWithFlags 2010-06-15 09:37:04 -06:00

       libvirt library code README
       ===========================

The directory provides the bulk of the libvirt codebase. Everything
except for the libvirtd daemon and client tools. The build uses a
large number of libtool convenience libraries - one for each child
directory, and then links them together for the final libvirt.so,
although some bits get linked directly to libvirtd daemon instead.

The files directly in this directory are supporting the public API
entry points & data structures.

There are two core shared modules to be aware of:

 * util/  - a collection of shared APIs that can be used by any
            code. This directory is always in the include path
            for all things built

 * conf/  - APIs for parsing / manipulating all the official XML
            files used by the public API. This directory is only
            in the include path for driver implementation modules


Then there are the hypervisor implementations:

 * esx/          - VMware ESX and GSX support using vSphere API over SOAP
 * lxc/          - Linux Native Containers
 * opennebula/   - Open Nebula using XMLRPC
 * openvz/       - OpenVZ containers using cli tools
 * phyp/         - IBM Power Hypervisor using CLI tools over SSH
 * qemu/         - QEMU / KVM using qemu CLI/monitor
 * remote/       - Generic libvirt native RPC client
 * test/         - A "mock" driver for testing
 * uml/          - User Mode Linux
 * vbox/         - Virtual Box using native API
 * xen/          - Xen using hypercalls, XenD SEXPR & XenStore


Finally some secondary drivers that are shared for several HVs.
Currently these are used by LXC, OpenVZ, QEMU, UML and Xen drivers.
The ESX, OpenNebula, Power Hypervisor, Remote, Test & VirtualBox
drivers all implement the secondary drivers directly

 * interface/    - Host network interface management
 * network/      - Virtual NAT networking
 * node_device/  - Host device enumeration
 * secret/       - Secret management
 * security/     - Mandatory access control drivers
 * storage/      - Storage management drivers


Since both the hypervisor and secondary drivers can be built as
dlopen()able modules, it is *FORBIDDEN* to have build dependencies
between these directories. Drivers are only allowed to depend on
the public API, and the internal APIs in the util/ and conf/
directories