Quoting Doron Fediuck <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>:
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak(a)redhat.com>
> To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 7:14:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] host cpu feature
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck(a)redhat.com>
> > To: "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul(a)redhat.com>
> > Cc: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak(a)redhat.com>,
"engine-devel"
> > <engine-devel(a)ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 6:10:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] host cpu feature
> >
> > > Alternative idea, inspired by "Thus, if you hit any bugs, you are
> > > on
> > > your own" (
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsCPU wrt
> > > 'host-passthrough'):
> > > A config option to determine if we use host-model or
> > > host-passthrough.
> > > Y.
> > >
> >
> > I do not think the engine should go to this level.
> > ie- it can ask for passthrough as a feature, and the
> > actual implementation is handled by vdsm.
> >
>
> If vdsm decides over host-passthrough or host-model, then how will
> the engine user know what exactly his VM gets. I think vdsm must be
> told exactly what to do.
>
VDSM maintains some level of independence. This is why it the engine
should be able to ask for passthrough as a feature. Otherwize vdsm will
handle it. So for now I suggest we stick to passthrough only, and if
we get an RFE for advanced mode we'll support the host model.
What are we gaining by using passthrough over host-model? Looking at
libvirt documentation, it seems that both modes give host CPU
capabilities to guest VM. Whereas the downside of passthrough is that
it limits migration. Whereas host-model will migrate to other hardware
and if the destination hardware is better than source then the guest
VM performance can be improved by rebooting guest.
As a stretch goal, ovirt can keep track of host capabilities and
inform the user after migrating to a better host, that a reboot may
improve guest performance.
Regards
Sharad Mishra
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