Subject: Re: Xen2 bailout: "Aieee! CPU0 is toast..."
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Johan Ihren <johani@johani.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 09/04/2007 14:16:24
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On 4 Sep 2007, at 11:07, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:39:23PM +0200, Johan Ihren wrote:
>> Runs like a charm. Upgrade to xen3 was very straightforward and not
>> much trouble.
>>
>> One question, though...
>>
>> In Xen2 I've sometimes done the CPU allocation manually becaue the
>> Xen2 scheduler has seemed, well, less than perfect for my
>> applications. It is then very useful to be able to examine the result
>> in the "CPU" column in the output from "xm list". Where do I find
>> information about which domU was allocated to which CPU in Xen3? That
>> information seems to be missing from both "xm list" and "xm top".
>
> The xen3 scheduler is dynamic, and can move a domain from one CPU  
> to another
> depending on the load of each CPUs (which Xen2 couldn't do), so  
> maybe the issue
> you had with Xen2 won't show up here. But if you really need to you  
> can
> tell Xen on which Cpus a domU is allowed to run, e.g.:
> cpus = '2-5'
> (this is on a 8-way server; this domU is allowed to run on CPUs 2  
> to 5 and
> won't have access to cpus 0, 1, 7 or 8).

Mikolaj Golub also wrote:

> xm vcpu-list ?

Many thanks to both of you. All working nicely and no further  
questions. (For the moment.)

Regards,

Johan


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