-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berrange@redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 12:38 PM
To: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com>
Cc: Safka, JaroslavX <jaroslavx.safka(a)intel.com>; libvir-list(a)redhat.com;
Mooney, Sean K <sean.k.mooney(a)intel.com>; Ptacek, MichalX
<michalx.ptacek(a)intel.com>
Subject: Re: [libvirt] [PATCHv4 3/3] qemu: Add args generation for file memory
backing
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 03:03:16PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 13.12.2016 13:12, Jaroslav Safka wrote:
> > This patch add support for file memory backing on numa topology.
> >
> > The specified access mode in memoryBacking can be overriden by
> > specifying token memAccess in numa cell.
> > ---
> > src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 113
++++++++++++++-------
> > .../qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-no-numa-topology.args | 21 ++++
> > .../qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-no-numa-topology.xml | 27 +++++
> > .../qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology.args | 24 +++++
> > .../qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology.xml | 30 ++++++
> > .../qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology2.args | 26 +++++
> > .../qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology2.xml | 31 ++++++
> > .../qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology3.args | 30 ++++++
> > .../qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology3.xml | 32 ++++++
> > tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 12 ++-
> > tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c | 1 -
> > 11 files changed, 308 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) create mode
> > 100644
> > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-no-numa-
topology.args
> > create mode 100644
> > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-no-numa-
topology.xml
> > create mode 100644
> > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology.args
> > create mode 100644
> > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology.xml
> > create mode 100644
> > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology2.args
> > create mode 100644
> > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology2.xml
> > create mode 100644
> > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology3.args
> > create mode 100644
> > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-fd-memory-numa-topology3.xml
>
> A lot of tests. Impressive.
>
> >
> > diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index
> > 7d186d2..a897ed5 100644
> > --- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
> > +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
> > @@ -3315,15 +3315,11 @@ qemuBuildMemoryBackendStr(unsigned long
long size,
> > if (!(props = virJSONValueNewObject()))
> > return -1;
> >
> > - if (pagesize) {
> > - if (qemuGetDomainHupageMemPath(def, cfg, pagesize, &mem_path)
< 0)
> > - goto cleanup;
> > -
> > + if (def->mem.source == VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_SOURCE_FILE) {
> > *backendType = "memory-backend-file";
> >
> > if (virJSONValueObjectAdd(props,
> > - "b:prealloc", true,
> > - "s:mem-path", mem_path,
> > + "s:mem-path", cfg->libDir,
>
> Really? cfg->libDir should stay intact. Should QEMU need to create a
> file, something cfg->stateDir based is probably more suitable. Or even
> some /tmp/ based path. Or am I misunderstanding something?
You don't want multi-GB files created in /tmp, nor cfg->stateDir which is also
on tmpfs
[Jarek] Hi Daniel, then should I keep the libDir? Or what will be better?
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