On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:24:37AM +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote: > On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 13:10 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 12:41 +0000, Anthony PERARD wrote: > > > > What libxl API those provide this information, if it exist? > > > > > > I found libxl_get_online_cpus() but that not enough. They want a > > > bitmap. > > > > I think that is all which currently exists, at least at the libxl level, > > you may need to add a new interface. > > > > It'd be worth looking into the various host numa interfaces -- perhaps > > one of them indirectly exposes what you want? > > > Given Daniel's latest emails, I'm not sure this is useful but > libxl_get_cpu_topology() should put LIBXL_CPUTOPOLOGY_INVALID_ENTRY in > all the fields of the i-eth element of the array it returns, if the > i-eth pcpu is offline (see the implementation of XEN_SYSCTL_topologyinfo > in xen/common/sysctl.c). > > So, scanning that array and constructing the bitmap according to whether > or not we find that marker on the various elements would be the way to > go, I would say. > > I've actually never tested this, i.e., I've never tried offlining a pcpu > on the host. I'll give it a go as soon as I find 5 minutes, and let know > if it works. FWIW, this code in openstack was only added for benefit of s390 architecture where apparently it is common to have hosts with CPUs offlined. Presumably you have to pay IBM for each extra CPU you turn online :) Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list