On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:54:22AM -0500, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 04:42:02PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:32:47AM -0500, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
Add an element named "strict-hugepages" to control whether to refuse guest initialization in case hugepage allocation cannot be performed.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in index ff50214..e79f5e6 100644 --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in @@ -632,6 +632,9 @@ <dt><code>hugepages</code></dt> <dd>This tells the hypervisor that the guest should have its memory allocated using hugepages instead of the normal native page size.</dd> + <dt><code>strict-hugepages</code></dt> + <dd>This tells the hypervisor that the guest should refuse to start + in case of failure to allocate guest memory with hugepages</dd>
Huh, we already supply the -mem-prealloc command line flag alongside the -mem-path flag which should cause QEMU to exit if it cannot allocate all memory upfront.
Daniel, Can we merge this patch please? Paolo thinks it belongs to libvirt.