During the Xen 4.3 release we discussed that this feature could be
turned on by default - as it benefits all of the guests - not just
tmem related.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
We've changed the config option from "vifscript" to "vif.default.script". This
was changed in the manpage but not in the example xl.conf.
Also move the option down to be with the other vif options.
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
The XENMEM_claim_pages hypercall operates per domain and it should be
used system wide. As such this patch introduces a global configuration
option 'claim_mode' that by default is disabled.
If this option is enabled then when a guest is created there will be an
guarantee that there is memory available for the guest. This is an
particularly acute problem on hosts with memory over-provisioned guests
that use tmem and have self-balloon enabled (which is the default option
for them). The self-balloon mechanism can deflate/inflate the balloon
quickly and the amount of free memory (which 'xl info' can show) is stale
the moment it is printed. When claim is enabled a reservation for the
amount of memory ('memory' in guest config) is set, which is then reduced
as the domain's memory is populated and eventually reaches zero.
If the reservation cannot be meet the guest creation fails immediately
instead of taking seconds/minutes (depending on the size of the guest)
while the guest is populated.
Note that to enable tmem type guests, one needs to provide 'tmem' on the
Xen hypervisor argument and as well on the Linux kernel command line.
There are two boolean options:
(0) No claim is made. Memory population during guest creation will be
attempted as normal and may fail due to memory exhaustion.
(1) Normal memory and freeable pool of ephemeral pages (tmem) is used when
calculating whether there is enough memory free to launch a guest.
This guarantees immediate feedback whether the guest can be launched due
to memory exhaustion (which can take a long time to find out if launching
massively huge guests) and in parallel.
[v1: Removed own claim_mode type, using just bool, improved docs, all per
Ian's suggestion]
[v2: Updated the comments]
[v3: Rebase on top 733b9c524d (xl: add vif.default.script)]
[v4: Fixed up comments]
[v5: s/global_claim_mode/claim_mode/]
[v6: Ian Jackson's feedback: use libxl_defbool, better comments, etc]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
autoballoon=1 is not recommened if dom0_mem was used to reduce the
amount of dom0 memory. Instead of requiring users to change xl.conf
if they do this, extend the autoballoon option with a new choice:
"auto".
With autoballoon="auto", autoballooning will be disabled if dom0_mem
was used on the Xen command line.
For consistency, accept "on" and "off" as valid autoballoon options (1
and 0 are still accepted).
The default remains "on" for now.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Add and option to xl.conf file to decide if hotplug scripts are
executed from the toolstack (xl) or from udev as it used to be in the
past.
This option is only introduced in this patch, but it has no effect
since the code to call hotplug scripts from libxl is introduced in a
latter patch.
This choice will be saved in "libxl/disable_udev", as specified in the
DISABLE_UDEV_PATH constant.
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Introduce a blkdev_start in xl.conf and a corresponding string in
libxl_domain_build_info.
Add a blkdev_start parameter to libxl__device_disk_local_attach: it is
going to be used in a following patch.
blkdev_start specifies the first block device to be used for temporary
block device allocations by the toolstack.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Add "vifscript" option to xl.conf which configures the default vif
script to use (default remains "vif-bridge")
Write each VIFs "ip" option to xenstore so the vif-route script can
pick it up.
Reported-by: W. Michael Petullo <mike@flyn.org>.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Committed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Free the needed amount of memory before proceeding with the domain
build.
Use a filelock to prevent other xl instances from conflicting during
this operation.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Add a global configuration file: /etc/xen/xl.conf; the only option
currently parsed is autoballoon that is 1 by default.
[fixed up for conflicts with libxl__ naming policy changes -iwj]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
George Dunlap
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
David Vrabel
Roger Pau Monne
Stefano Stabellini
Olaf Hering
Ian Campbell
Ian Jackson