On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 01:14:58PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
Determining this by version might not be reliable, but more importantly working around bug in underlying software is something that shouldn't be done at all IMHO. Let the maintainers backport whatever needs to be done.
I agree with you in an ideal world but there are times when we do need to add work arounds in $project_x to work around issues in $project_y.
Ther nova side will be pretty easy regardless.
I'd say the best solution would be to back port the 'fix' but that seems like a lot of effort given the number of distros and libvirt versions potentiall involved.
If you want the fix to be distro-agnostic, there's nothing easier than back-porting the fix into our upstream maintenance branches. Those should make the life of distro maintainers easy (although it looks like not many distros use it).
And this is part of the problem. If I understand correctly Ubuntu cloud-archive is using libvirt 1.2.12 which is *NOT* a maintenance release so that leaves us with doing an additional backport to 1.2.12 and getting the cloud-archive team to take it[1] or Adding a hack to nova. And that's just Ubuntu It's hard to say for sure that some vendor isn't running libvirt 1.2.12 also.
Having said that I'm not sure which commit(s) are those that need to be back-ported. Having known your libvirt version, it shouldn't be too hard looking for the differences and finding the right commit. When back-porting request is made on the list, it is usually acted upon. If you can't find the exact commit, let me know and I'll do my best to help.
So a git bisect points at: --- commit a103bb105c0c189c3973311ff1826972b5bc6ad6 Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Date: Tue Feb 10 15:59:57 2015 +0000 qemu: fix setting of VM CPU affinity with TCG --- A small amount of reading implies to me that we'd be looking at backporting a103bb105c0c189c3973311ff1826972b5bc6ad6 to any maintenance branch that contains b07f3d821dfb11a118ee75ea275fd6ab737d9500. Which I think is 1.2.13 only, but I could be wrong. If you don't beat me to it I'll request that backport to 1.2.13 *and* ask the Ubuntu guys to take it as well. I have to admit I'm still in 2 minds on the nova side. Adding a wart to the libvirt driver for this specific bug for distros/vendors that are using 1.2.12 seems a bit gross but .... Daniel what do you think? Yours Tony.