Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] virsh: Clarify that memtune parameters may be rounded in the man page

--- tools/virsh.pod | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod index b4a3d5c..6ecf6ce 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.pod +++ b/tools/virsh.pod @@ -1366,7 +1366,10 @@ appropriate limit is adjusted if supported by the hypervisor. LXC and QEMU/KVM support I<--hard-limit>, I<--soft-limit>, and I<--swap-hard-limit>. I<--min-guarantee> is supported only by ESX hypervisor. Each of these limits are scaled integers (see B<NOTES> above), with a default of -kibibytes (blocks of 1024 bytes) if no suffix is present. +kibibytes (blocks of 1024 bytes) if no suffix is present. Libvirt rounds +up to the nearest kibibyte. Some hypervisors require a larger granularity +than KiB, and requests that are not an even multiple will be rounded up. +For example, vSphere/ESX rounds the parameter up to mebibytes (1024 kibibytes).