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-rw-r--r--docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.526
-rw-r--r--tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c44
2 files changed, 63 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
index 64baf38f74..832bae4cb9 100644
--- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
+++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
@@ -108,9 +108,25 @@ created online and the remainder will be offline.
=item B<cpus="CPU-LIST">
List of which cpus the guest is allowed to use. Default behavior is
-`all cpus`. A list of cpus may be specified as follows: `cpus="0-3,5,^1"`
-(all vcpus will run on cpus 0,2,3,5), or `cpus=["2", "3"]` (all vcpus
-will run on cpus 2 and 3).
+`all cpus`. A C<CPU-LIST> may be specified as follows:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item "all"
+
+To allow all the vcpus of the guest to run on all the cpus on the host.
+
+=item "0-3,5,^1"
+
+To allow all the vcpus of the guest to run on cpus 0,2,3,5.
+
+=item ["2", "3"] (or [2, 3])
+
+To ask for specific vcpu mapping. That means (in this example), vcpu #0
+of the guest will run on cpu #2 of the host and vcpu #1 of the guest will
+run on cpu #3 of the host.
+
+=back
=item B<cpu_weight=WEIGHT>
@@ -951,10 +967,6 @@ XXX
XXX
-=item B<cpus=XXX>
-
-XXX
-
=item B<maxmem=NUMBER>
XXX
diff --git a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
index 5fc5cde2d2..edfe462ab6 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ static uint32_t domid;
static const char *common_domname;
static int fd_lock = -1;
+/* Stash for specific vcpu to pcpu mappping */
+static int *vcpu_to_pcpu;
static const char savefileheader_magic[32]=
"Xen saved domain, xl format\n \0 \r";
@@ -630,6 +632,21 @@ static void parse_config_data(const char *configfile_filename_report,
exit(1);
}
+ /* Prepare the array for single vcpu to pcpu mappings */
+ vcpu_to_pcpu = xmalloc(sizeof(int) * b_info->max_vcpus);
+ memset(vcpu_to_pcpu, -1, sizeof(int) * b_info->max_vcpus);
+
+ /*
+ * Idea here is to let libxl think all the domain's vcpus
+ * have cpu affinity with all the pcpus on the list.
+ * It is then us, here in xl, that matches each single vcpu
+ * to its pcpu (and that's why we need to stash such info in
+ * the vcpu_to_pcpu array now) after the domain has been created.
+ * Doing it like this saves the burden of passing to libxl
+ * some big array hosting the single mappings. Also, using
+ * the cpumap derived from the list ensures memory is being
+ * allocated on the proper nodes anyway.
+ */
libxl_cpumap_set_none(&b_info->cpumap);
while ((buf = xlu_cfg_get_listitem(cpus, n_cpus)) != NULL) {
i = atoi(buf);
@@ -638,6 +655,8 @@ static void parse_config_data(const char *configfile_filename_report,
exit(1);
}
libxl_cpumap_set(&b_info->cpumap, i);
+ if (n_cpus < b_info->max_vcpus)
+ vcpu_to_pcpu[n_cpus] = i;
n_cpus++;
}
}
@@ -1714,6 +1733,31 @@ start:
if ( ret )
goto error_out;
+ /* If single vcpu to pcpu mapping was requested, honour it */
+ if (vcpu_to_pcpu) {
+ libxl_cpumap vcpu_cpumap;
+
+ libxl_cpumap_alloc(ctx, &vcpu_cpumap);
+ for (i = 0; i < d_config.b_info.max_vcpus; i++) {
+
+ if (vcpu_to_pcpu[i] != -1) {
+ libxl_cpumap_set_none(&vcpu_cpumap);
+ libxl_cpumap_set(&vcpu_cpumap, vcpu_to_pcpu[i]);
+ } else {
+ libxl_cpumap_set_any(&vcpu_cpumap);
+ }
+ if (libxl_set_vcpuaffinity(ctx, domid, i, &vcpu_cpumap)) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "setting affinity failed on vcpu `%d'.\n", i);
+ libxl_cpumap_dispose(&vcpu_cpumap);
+ free(vcpu_to_pcpu);
+ ret = ERROR_FAIL;
+ goto error_out;
+ }
+ }
+ libxl_cpumap_dispose(&vcpu_cpumap);
+ free(vcpu_to_pcpu); vcpu_to_pcpu = NULL;
+ }
+
ret = libxl_userdata_store(ctx, domid, "xl",
config_data, config_len);
if (ret) {