[Kimchi-devel] UI Mockup of SMT

[Aline Manera]

On 11/14/2014 07:52 AM, Yu Xin Huo wrote:
> 1. Making it a combobox is not for the purpose to simplify coding, it 
> is for visual balance, for current kimchi UI style, you can imagine 
> how a checkbox looks there.

We could put the check box aside the CPU input box as they are related.

CPU [________________] [ ] Hyper Threading

> 2. Please clarify below
>
> http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/kimchi-devel/2014-November/008660.html
>
> ---- For below, do you mean that I should always display SMT1, SMT2, 
> SMT4 for the first 3, and for the last one, it will be 
> SMT[threads_per_core]? I wonder why only 4 options.
> 	  Display a menu labled SMT, with up to four check-boxes.
>            The check-boxes will be labeled SMT1, SMT2, SMT4, and SMT8.
>            The max SMT value displayed will be dependant upon
>            threads_per_core from above. The default checkbox should be the
>            greatest SMT value (e.g. SMT8).
>
> ---- For below, seems like you mean the CPUs should be limited to a 
> certain set of numbers, where to get this set of numbers.
>
> 	  Display the same box for CPUs as before. I had initially thought
>            about having a drop-down for CPUs instead of the empty field,
>            (with only legal vCPU amounts, like 1,2,4,8, etc.)
> ---- For below
> curl -k -u user -X POST -H 'Content-Typ: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' \
>   https://localhost:8001/templates  -d'{"name": "test_topo", "cdrom": "/isos/DVD_name.iso", \
>   "cpus":4, "cpu_info": {"topology": {"sockets": 1, "cores": 2, "threads":2}}}'
>
> This is the content when create template, what content should be added 
> for 'SMT' or 'Hyper-threading' when saving a template.
>
>
> On 11/14/2014 2:21 AM, Crístian Viana wrote:
>> On 13-11-2014 08:58, Yu Xin Huo wrote:
>>> x86
>>>
>>>
>>> Power(for SMT, I think it is single selection)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Even though I know it might make the code a little harder, I think it 
>> would be better to display the HT field (on x86) as a checkbox 
>> element, where the user can enable and disable quickly. A combo box 
>> is not appropriate for on/off statuses. But I understand that it's 
>> easier because of how SMT works on POWER, and you'd need a combo box 
>> anyway.
>
>
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