On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 08:39:52AM -0500, Laszlo Hornyak wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <[email protected]>
> > To: "Laszlo Hornyak" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: "Yaniv Kaul" <[email protected]>, "engine-devel" <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 1:55:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] host cpu feature
> > 
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 06:46:09AM -0500, Laszlo Hornyak wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Yaniv Kaul" <[email protected]>
> > > > To: "Laszlo Hornyak" <[email protected]>
> > > > Cc: "engine-devel" <[email protected]>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 12:23:47 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] host cpu feature
> > > > 
> > > > On 12/05/2012 12:32 PM, Laszlo Hornyak wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > CPU-Host support allows the virtual machines to see and utilize
> > > > > the
> > > > > host's CPU flags, this enables better performance in VM's, at
> > > > > the
> > > > > price of worse portablity.
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Cpu-host_Support
> > > > >
> > > > > Your feedback is welcome!
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you,
> > > > > Laszlo
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> > > > 
> > > > - I assume that when you allow migration, you'd use host-model?
> > > > This
> > > > is
> > > > not clear from the design. It seems like we VDSM developers can
> > > > choose
> > > > to use either this or passthrough, while in practice we should
> > > > support both.
> > 
> > I join Kaul's question: it is an ovirt-level question whether
> > hostPassthrough or hostModel or both should be supported. It should
> > not
> > be a unilateral vdsm decision.
> 
> Ah, possibly misunderstanding, I did not mean that VDSM should decide whether 
> to use host-passthrough or host-model. The engine should decide.
> I meant _you_ should decide which version of vdsm api modification do you 
> want :)
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > If AllowMigrateCPUHost is set to true (in case you have the same
> > > cpu model everywhere in your DC) migration of such hsots will be
> > > enabled. Otherwise it will not be enabled.
> > 
> > What is the breadth of AllowMigrateCPUHost? Engine wide? Per DC? Per
> > cluster?
> 
> I thought of eninge-wide. The of course you can have different models in two 
> different DC, but they should be unique in one.
> We can add this to DC or cluster level, imho it would be just another 
> checkbox on the UI that most users would not use.

Most users are not going to use hostcpu. This feature is intended to
people who have performance-critical VMs, and a set of hosts that can
run them. These very same people may have less critical desktops that
are to be allowed to run on any host.
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