Re: [PATCH V2] qemu: Redefine the "unlimited" memory limits one more time

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On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:39:17PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 04:35:14PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:19:54PM +0100, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
> On 18.11.2016 17:44, Viktor Mihajlovski wrote:
> > With kernel 3.18 (since commit 3e32cb2e0a12b6915056ff04601cf1bb9b44f967) the
> > "unlimited" value for cgroup memory limits has changed once again as its byte
> > value is now computed from a page counter.
> > The new "unlimited" value reported by the cgroup fs is therefore 2**51-1 pages
> > which is (VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_PARAM_UNLIMITED - 3072). This results e.g. in virsh
> > memtune displaying 9007199254740988 instead of unlimited for the limits.
> >

Ah, I wonder hoe many times we'll have to deal with this.

Anyway, this means it is not enough to shift by 2 if the system hugepage
is more than 4k (e.g. 2M).  I remember we had to change something due to
such hosts.  virGetSystemPageSize(KB) should help with that.

We could also make it 2^50 - pagesize just to make sure it will work for
a while, but some might not like it.

I guess I'm not understanding how this code copes with the fact that
we now have 3 different "unlimited" values to deal with.

Could we not simply record the unlimited values and pick the right
one based on kernel version we detect ?


We have one, which we return for Get APIs that means that the setting
was not restricted.  We would need to have a cgroup which we set to
some huge value and then read it, store it and compare it all the time.
It _should_ work as far as I can tell.

Regards,
Daniel
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